Mon 21 May, 2012 01:40 pm - Thanks for the info. I have read from a few sources that in this case, which is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, in Austria, he inherited the title of Ritter from his father. But that's about all... (view)
Sun 20 May, 2012 06:13 pm - Ritter is apparently a title, similar to knight given by a king or emperor. I am studying someone who lived in the latter half of the nineteenth century in Austria whose father had that title. He... (view)
Fri 18 May, 2012 10:00 am - Any suggestions of books or memoirs that might help me learn what day to day life was like for non-aristocratic people in Graz and Vienna during the second half of the 19th century (1850-1900)?... (view)