Name	Schwegler, Heinrich Christoph
Alternative Names
ID	19297
Gender	male
Professions	Dolmetscher

Collection(s)	QHOD Dolmetscher
Uri(s)	https://mpr.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entity/19297/
Notes	He studied in the class of Giovanni Battista Podestà from 1678 to 1680, and then with Internuncius Caprara in Constantinople in 1682. In 1683 he was appointed vice-interpreter in Győr (Vizedolmetscher in Raab), from 1684 he was Turkish interpreter for Walter Leslie, and from 1686 he was assigned to the corps near the Drava as fully accredited interpreter of the Council of War. In 1689, he was assigned to Kanizsa to survey the Ottoman economic records of the castle, in the last years of the Great Turkish War he served both in Vienna and at the front line.
References	Dóra KEREKES: A császári tolmácsok a magyarországi visszafoglaló háborúk idején. In: Századok 138 (2004), 1189–1228; Zsuzsanna CZIRÀKI: A Habsburg Monarchia keleti nyelvi tolmácsai a 17. században, Reciti - Budapest, 2024.