There Is No Denying the Importance of Awareness

In Search of the Viennese African, Angelo Soliman (ca. 1721-96): From Educator of a Hereditary Prince to Stuffed Exhibit

“…Pichler reports that Count Franz Moritz von Lacy ( 1725-180 I) had an extraordinarily high regard for Soliman because of his military courage, and once offered him the rank of captain out of turn, which Soliman refused -probably to avoid the envy of his fellow soldiers. 20 Some authors, like Bauer, 21 express doubts about Lacy's esteem for Soliman. But in 1999 the present author fou nd a copy of a letter, written in French , from Lacy to Soliman, dated 9 November 1761.…”