Service and education: the Royal Hungarian Bodyguard as a cultural institution in eighteenth-century Vienna

The Royal Hungarian Bodyguard, founded in 1760, was the first guard unit at Viennese court to be recruited on a territorial basis and exclusively from noblemen. establishment of Guard served three purposes: significantly increase presence Hungarians court, represent monarch (the power sovereign) estates, provide cultural space for young For them, became an aid building patron-client relations orientation environment, which especially important natives eastern Hungary Principality Transylvania as well Protestant article examines role expanding horizons nobles. purpose paper is present instrument education acculturation nobles against background well-known recently discovered sources, such proposals, school register books so forth, awaken interest international research importance this special institution. At beginning article, overview early proposals given, then principles its operation are described, finally, several examples given illustrate careers magnates