Visit to the Ottoman Empire

Dezső Bozóky (1871–1957) in 1905–1906 as naval physician of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy has served more than a year on shipboard the Taurus around the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin. He has been to several major ports, sojourned for a longer time in Constantinople, visited Bursa and Izmir as well. Of all the photos he recorded then, only about 300 pieces of glass stereotypes have survived, preserved at Hopp Museum. With his essay, Turkic scholar Gábor Fodor offers a history of Austria-Hungary’s stationed boat in Constantinople, and helps readers to orient themselves and understand the conditions of the Ottoman Empire at the time the photos were made.

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