EPIDEMIA DE CIUMĂ DIN BANATUL TIMIȘOAREI ȘI DIN TRANSILVANIA DIN 1738 – ECOURI ÎN PRESA DIN EUROPA

During the fight between the Austrian and Ottoman troops in the late autumn of 1737, the epidemic plague spread from Wallachia to Transylvania’s southern regions, such as the Districts of Brașov (Kronstadt) and Sibiu (Hermannstadt). Thereafter a battalion of Grünne’s Infantry Regiment, moved from Transylvania to the garrison of Timișoara (Temesvar), brought the plague into the Banat of Temesvar. On the background of the Austrian-Ottoman military clashes in 1738, the press in Europe payed an increasing attention to the epidemic disease in Transylvania and in the Banat of Temesvar. The source of all informations on the ongoing epidemic plague was the official Vienna newspaper, „Wiennerisches Diarium”. Over 60 more or less extensive news (published in the Appendix) were excerpted from a certain number of european newspapers as „Bologna”, „Amsterdam” (with the „Suite des nouvelles d’Amsterdam”), „St. Petersburgische Zeitung” (Sankt Petersburg), „Le Courrier” (Avignon), „Gazeta de Lisboa” (Lisbon), „Diario Ordinario” (Rome), „Ordinari Post-Zeitungen” (Munich), „Mercure historique et politique” (Hague) with its Spanish version „Mercurio histórico y politico” (Madrid) and „Gazette de France” (Paris).