Historicka Sociologie (Nov 2022)

Morganatický sňatek aristokrata druhé poloviny 19. století jako sociální deviace: příklad Emanuela Collalto e San Salvatore

  • Jan Koumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2022.19
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 2
pp. 105 – 119

Abstract

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This text deals with the morganatic marriage of an aristocrat in the first society of Austria-Hungary. It concentrates on the deviational dimension of this marriage so as to show what problems the long-term relationship and later marital status with the non-aristocratic girl Irma Büttner Emanuel Collalto e San Salvatore had to face. First, the problem of the morganatic marriages in general is expounded, then the social and financial situation of Emanuel Collalto is described, the whole case of his morganatic relationship is exposed and its consequences are paid attention to. The conclusion concentrates on the view of this whole case as a social deviation and the solution of its effects, which Emanuel Collalto chose.