Children of the Danube (ePub)
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That is what they sought in the devastated Kingdom of Hungary, recently liberated after an oppressive one hundred and fifty year occupation by the Turks. Leaving the Danube River behind them, they would be confronted by a wilderness, disease-ridden swamps, dense forests, isolation, primitive living conditions, marauders and brigands. They would find themselves at the mercy of greedy landowners and rapacious nobles, and would have to endure the final onslaught of the Counter Reformation in their pursuit of religious freedom. This is what awaited them, in responding to the invitation of the Hapsburg Emperor Charles VI. It was hardly what the handbills circulating throughout south western Germany had promised.
How they would respond, who they would become as a result of it, and what sustained and formed them into the Children of the Danube, as a distinctive and unique people among the Danube Swabians will unfold, in the telling of their tragic and yet heroic story.
Henry Fischer was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, the son of Swabian immigrants from Hungary. His parents’ lives, and those of their families from across the generations, are part of the heroic and tragic history of their people that became the inspiration and impetus for writing “Children of the Danube.”
He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Currently he resides in Oshawa, Ontario with his wife Jean. They have two sons, Stephen (married to Sonya) and David (married to Krista) and share in the lives, hopes and dreams of their grandchildren: Julianna, John, Evan and Luke, who too are children of the Danube.
- Autor: Henry A. Fischer
- 2004, 460 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1418413267
- ISBN-13: 9781418413262
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.06.2004
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