Die Karriere des deutschen Renegaten Hans Caspar in Ofen ...
The author examines 17th-century Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy, with a focus on the frontier. This work centres on the life and work of a so-called renegade, who was born Alexander Fischer in Vienna but later converted to Islam, serving successive viziers in Buda as Hüseyin Chiaus (Çavus), while learning Hungarian. Between 1629 and 1660, he was employed as a spy by Habsburg ...