Andreas von Auersperg
Andreas von Auersperg, Mr. Schoenberg and Seisenberg (Slovenian Andrej Turjaški, Croatian and Bosnian Andrija Auersperg; Андрија Ауершперг ) ( born April 9, 1556 Seisenberg in Lower Carniola, Slovenia today, † September 5, 1593 in Charles City in Croatia) was an Austrian - Slovenian military leader.
Andreas von Auersperg was from one of the leading Protestant Dynastengeschlechter Austria in Carniola and was the youngest son of Wolfgang Engelbert von Auersperg, Mr. Schoenberg, Seisenberg and Flödnig († 1557) and Anna Maria von Lamberg ( 1514-1557 ). When his parents died early, the Governor in Carniola Weikhard Freiherr von Auersperg (1533-1581) was his guardian.
In 1569 he moved into the age of 13, the University of Tübingen; through the mediation of Trubar (1508-1586) was Bernhard Steiner ( † after 1593) there would be 1569 to 1573 " preceptor " ( tutor ). 1573 Auersperg studied in Padua and Bologna in 1574.
Andreas von Auersperg was a soldier and accompanied 1577-1578 Archduke Matthias (1557-1619) in the Netherlands. In 1578 he fought in Croatia as a captain under Baron Hans Ferenberger of Auer ( 1511-1584 ) and in 1579 under Christoph von Auersperg ( 1550-1592 ) on the Illyrian frontier. In 1583 he was a colonel, and in 1589 he was appointed by Rudolph II (1552-1612 ) as the successor of Count Jobst Joseph von Thurn und Valsassina († 1589 ) to the Council of War and commanding general (field Obrist ) on the Croatian and Dalmatian ( "petri janischen " ) limit in Carlstadt appointed.
On June 22, 1593 approximately 5,000 -strong troops Ban Toma Erdődy of Eberau ( 1558-1624 ), Andres von Auersperg beat, Ruprecht von Eggenberg ( 1546-1611 ) and Melchior of Rederns ( 1555-1600 ), a supposedly four times stronger Ottoman army under the Bosnian Beylerbey Hassan Pasha († 1593; born as " Niko Predojević " ) in the Battle of Sissek at the Kupa. Pope Clement VIII (1536-1605) sent the Protestants Auersperg on July 10, 1593 an autograph congratulatory letter.
According to a saying of Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644-1709) was Auersperg " (it) Christian Achilles " and called " the terror of the Turks " of the " Carniolian " or. He died unmarried.