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Bibliography

A selective and very basic reading-list is provided immediately below. Some of these are available on-line and the icon may be clicked to access them (see also see the 'Materials' web-page...).

For an expanded bibliography, please consult the listing further down - the four sections are in simple alphabetical order by surname of author/editor.

The Memoirs themselves

• Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky, Magnate of the Kingdoms of Hungary and Poland, One of the Chiefs of the Confederation of Poland &c Translated and edited by W. Nicholson, London 1790 (2 volumes)      
• Des Grafen Beniovsky Reisen durch Sibirien und Kamtschatka über Japan und China nach Europa. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von C. D. und J. P. Ebeling. Hamburg, 1791. Vols 1 and 2. Reprinted 1797  
• Voyages et Memoires de Maurice-Auguste, Comte de Benyowsky. Paris, 2 vols, in 8vo, 1791.  
• The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky. From the translation of his original manuscripts (1741-71) by William Nicholson, F.R.S., 1790. Edited by Captain Pasfield Oliver. 8vo. Illustrated, pp.399, with map of voyage. London, 1893.

Other sources

• Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen, Relation de Deux Voyages dans les Mers Australes et des Indes, Paris 1782  
• Alexis Rochon. Voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies (trans. from French by J.Trapp), London 1793   

Useful critiques

• Ian Inkster, Oriental Enlightenment: The problematic Military Experiences and Cultural Claims of Count de Benyowsky. In: Taiwan Historical Research, Vol.17, No,1, pp.27-70. Taipei 2010  
• Luke Roberts, Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period Tosa. In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.70, No.1, Tokyo 2015. pp.83-122  
• Prosper Cultru, Un Empereur de Madagascar au 18ième Siecle: Benyowszky. Paris 1906  

Other bibliographies

• Hungarian historian Vilmos Voigt's article (2007) includes a useful bibliography. Click here to view it (at the end of the article).
• Captain Pasfield Oliver's bibliography from his 1904 edition of Benyovszky's Journal. Click here to view it.

Expanded Bibliography

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Bernatowicz, L.	Dziennik podrozy i zdarzen hrabiego M. A. Benoiwskiego na Syberyi, Azyi i Afryce    [Polish translation]. Four parts.	Cracow, 1894
Cercansky, Samuel	Pamatné Prihody Hrabéte Benowského [Slovak edition] translated by 8vo.	Bratislava, 1808
Ebeling, C.D. und J.P.	Des Grafen Beniovsky Reisen durch Sibirien und Kamtschatka über Japan und China nach Europa. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von C. D. und J. P. Ebeling. Vols 1 and 2. Reprinted 1797	Hamburg, 1791
Ebeling, C.D. und J.P. [???]	Des Grafen Beniovsky Reise. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und abgekürzt. Vols i-ii. 8vo	Reutlingen (Germany), 1796
Forster, Georg	Des Grafen Beniovsky Reisen durch Sibirien und Kamtschatka über Japan und China nach Europa,. übersetzt von Geo. Forster.	Leipzig, 1791
Jokai, Mór	Benyovszky Moricz eletrajza sajat emlekiratai es utleirasai [translated from the English edition of 1790 by M. Jokai]. Kepekkel, terkepekkel, etc. 8vo, 4 vols.	Budapest, 1888-90
Kajdanski, Édward	Mémoires et voyages / Maurice Auguste Beniowski	Paris, 2010
Koublaski, N.A.	Vie et Aventures du Comte M. A. B. résumés d’Apres les Mémoires ... par N. A. K[oublaski]. Bibliothèque des Écoles Chrétiennes, 2eme series, 1 vol.	Tours (France), 1863
Lebrun, Tomasz Hervenbsp;	Historya Podrozy Y Osobliwszych Zdarzen Slawnego Maurycego-Augusta Hrabi Beniowskiego Szlachcica Polskiego Y Wegierskiego, Zawieraiaca W Sobie: Jego czyny woienne w Polszcze, w czasie Konfederacyi Barskiey [...] z Francuzkiego Tlomaczona. Vol. 3. 8vo. a. 2nd edition, ib. 1802. 3rd edition, ib. 1806.	Warsaw, 1797
Liebeskind, D.M & Forster, Joh. Reinh.	Des Grafen Beniovsky Reisen durch Sibirien und Kamtschatka über Japan und China nach Europa. 8vo. Reprinted 1794 and 1806	Berlin, 1790
Loosjes, A. [Publisher]	Gedenkschriften en Reizen des Graaven van Benyowsky [...] Dutch translation, four volumes	Haarlem, 1791/92
Magellan, J.H. & Noel, F.J.	Voyages et Memoires de Maurice-Auguste, Comte de Benyowsky. 2 vols, in 8vo.	Paris, 1791
Nicholson, William	The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky. Written by himself. 2 vols., 8vo.	Dublin, 1790
Nicholson, William	The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky. Written by himself. Translated from the original manuscript (by W. Nicholson). 2 vols., 4to.	London, 1790
Ödmann, Samuel	Grefwens Mauritz August von Beniowskis Lefnadslopp och Resor af honom sjelf beskrefne, 8vo.	Stockholm, 1791
Oliver, Pasfield	The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus, Count de Benyowsky. From the translation of his original manuscripts (1741-71) by William Nicholson, F.R.S., 1790. 8vo. Illustrated, pp.399, with map of voyage.	London, 1893
Oliver, Pasfield	Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky, etc.	London, 1904
Schrämbl, F.A.	Des Grafen Beniovsky Reisen durch Sibirien und Kamtschatka über Japan und China nach Europa. 8vo.	Vienna, 1792

Bandzo-Antkowia, Malgorzata	Maurycy August Beniowski - Confabulator or Discoverer?    In: Geographia Polonica Volume 86, Issue 2, pp. 171-173	Warsaw, 2013
Barlow, Nathaniel / “Sylvanus Urban” (ed)	The Following Extraordinary Account etc.    In: The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol.52, , pp.272f	London, 1772
Berg, A.	Flucht des Grafen Benjowsky aus Kamtschatka nach Frankreich.    In: St Peterburgische Zeitschrift, Vol.1	St Petersburg, 1822
Cseke, Zsolt	Benyovszky Móric és a malgasok földje.	Pecs (Hungary), 2012
Cultru, Prosper	De Colonia in Insulam Delphinam vulgo Madagaskar. A barone M. A. de Benyowszky deducta.	Paris, 1901
Cultru, Prosper	Un Empereur de Madagascar au 18ième Siecle: Benyowszky.	Paris, 1906
Dénes, Balazs	Benyovszky Móric a hiteles forrásanyagok tükrében [Móric Benyovszky in the light of authentic source material].    In: Földrajzi Közlemények, Új folyam XXXVI (CXIÏ): 103-105.	Budapest, 1988
Drummond, Andrew	The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky	Abingdon/New York, 2017
Dvoichenko-Markova, E.	Benjamin Franklin and Count M.A.Beniowski	Philadelphia, 1955
Ferard, Paul-Louis	Benyowsky. Gentilhomme et Roi de fortune.	Paris, 1931
Flacourt, Etienne de	Histoire de la Grande Ile de Madagascar	Paris, 1913
Inkster, Ian	Oriental Enlightenment: The problematic Military Experiences and Cultural Claims of Count de Benyowsky.    In: Taiwan Historical Research, Vol.17, No,1, pp.27-70	Taipei, 2010
Janko, Dr. Janos	Grof Benyovszky Moricz mint foldrajzi kutato. Kritikai megjegyzesek Kamcsatkalol Makaoig tett utjara.	Budapest, 1890
Janko, Dr. Janos	A Grof Benyovszky Irodalom Anyagarol.    In: Szazadok xxv. pp.718-735, 797-808	Budapest, 1891
E. Kajdański, Edward	Tajemnica Beniowskiego	Warsaw, 1994
Kocak, Michal Zost	Móric Begovsky 1746-1786-1996. Cestovatel', vojak, kral', In: Matica Slovenská.	Martin, 1997
Kropf, Lajos	Art. Grof Benyovszky Moricz.    In: Szazadok xxviii, pp.646-660	Budapest, 1894
Kropf, Lajos L.	Mauritius Augustus Benyowszky. In “Notes and Queries”, Series 8, Vols.6 (pp.481ff) and 7 (pp.4f, 63f, 141f, 243f, 322f, 403f, 463).	London, 1895
Kukulski, Leszek Oprac	Pamietniki; fragment konfederacki. Maurycy Beniowski.	Warsaw, 1967
Lugosi, Gyozo	"Benyovszky Móric Madagaszkáron - 'autolegenda' és valóság (Móric Benyovszky in Madagascar - ""self-legend"" and reality)    In: Szazadok, 118, 2, pp. 361-390."	Budapest, 1984
Lugosi, Gyozo	"Benyovszky Móric madagaszkári 'királysága' az újabb kutatások tükrében (The Madagascan "kingship" of Móric Benyovszky in the light of recent research),    In: Ethnographia, XCIX, 1, pp. 34-52.	Budapest, 1988
Lugosi, Gyozo	Rizsföldjeim határa a tenger. Államszervezödés Madagaszkáron a gyarmati uralom elott    [Formation of State in Madagascar, before the Colonization]	Budapest, 2007
Meusel, J.G.	Vermischte Nachrichten.	Erlangen (Germany), 1816
Molnar, Miklós	Miért nem lett Benyovszky Madagaszkár királya? [Why Benyovszky was not the King of Madagascar?]    In: Magyar Tudomány, /9:	Budapest, 1997
Orlowski, Leon	Maurycy August Beniowski	Warsaw, 1961
Paseniuk, Leonid	Pokhozhdeniia barona Beniovskogo: Istoriko-biograficheskii ocherk.    In: ‘Kamchatka’, pp.109-166	Petropavlovsk (Russia), 1978
Paseniuk, Leonid	Miatezhnaia sud’ba skital’tsa.    In: ‘Belye nochi na reke Mamontovoi’, pp.194-302	Krasnodar (Russia), 1988
Roberts, Luke	Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period Tosa.    In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.70, No.1. pp.83-122	Tokyo, 2015
Rochon, Alexis	Voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies (trans. from French by J.Trapp)	London, 1793
Ryumin, Ivan	Zapiski Kantselyarista Ryumina o priklyutsheniyach’ ego s’ Beniovskim.    In: Siberian Archiv.	St Petersburg, 1822
Serdián, Miklós György (ed)	Benyovszky, Móric: Madagaszkár	Budapest, 2001
Sgibnev, A.S.	Russkaya Starina. Alt. liy A. S. Sgibnev in Vol.xv, Bunt’ Benyovskavo v’ Kamchatke. St. Petersburg	St Petersburg, 1876
Sieroszewski, Andrzej	Maurycy Beniowski w literackiej legendzie	Warsaw, 1970
Smith, Herbert Greenhough	The Romance of History: Masaniello, Prince Rupert, Benyowsky etc,    [specifically pp.55-92]	London, 1895
Stein, V.I.	Samozvannoi imperator Madagaskarskii. (M.A.Ben’ëvskii).    In: Istoricheskii Vestnik No.7	St Petersburg, 1908
Teixera, Manuel	O Conde Benyowsky em Macau	Macau, 1966
Thalloczy, Lajos	Gr. Benyovszky Moricz Haditengereszeti es Kereskedelem Politikai Tervei (1779-81).	Budapest, 1901
Vacher, Paule	Contribution à l’histoire de l’établissement français fondé à Madagascar, par le baron de Benyovszky (1772-1776 (Tananarive, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines).	Tananarive (Madagascar), 1970
Voigt, Vilmos	Maurice Benyovszky and his “Madagascar Protocolle” (1772-1776).    In: Hungarian Studies, Vol.21, Part 1	Budapest, 2007
Voigt,Vilmos (ed.)	Protocolle du Régiment des Volontaire de Benyowsky crée en 1772 - Benyovszky Móric madagaszkári jegyzökönyve 1772-1776.	Budapest, 2004

Assendelft de Coningh, Cornelis Theodoor van	Mijn Verblijf in Japan. [My Visit to Japan]    [Specifically pp.155-160]	Amsterdam, 1856
Barquissau, Raphael	Les Chevaliers des Isles	La Reunion, 1990
Cochrane, John Dundas	Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia [...].to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka	London, 1825
Hunt, William R.	Arctic Passage: The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea 1697-1975.	New York, 1975
Kerguelen, Yves-Joseph de	Relation de Deux Voyages dans les Mers Australes et des Indes,	Paris, 1782
King, Captain James	The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, edited by Captain James King: Vol.2, 1821; Vol.3, 1834	London, 1821/34
Kunec, Patrik	The Hungarian Participants in the American War of Independence.    In: Codrul Cosminului, XVI, No.1, pp.41-57.	Suceava (Romania), 2010
Laut, Agnes C.	Vikings of the Pacific. The Adventures of the Explorers who came from the West, Eastward.    Specifically, the chapter ‘Benyowsky, the Polish Pirate’	London, 1905
Lensen, George	The Russian Push Towards Japan.	New York, 1971
Lesseps, Barthélemy de	Journal Historique du Voyage de M. de Lesseps	Paris, 1790
Schlözer, August Ludwig	Briefwechsel. Erster Theil, Heft I - VI, 1776. 4. Auflage	Göttingen, 1780
Schmalev, Timotei	Neueste Nachrichten aus Kamtschatka […] June 1773.    In: St Peterburgisches Journal, Vol.I, April , pp.18-25. [Partial reproduction of article also translated by Schlözer]	St Petersburg, 1776

Antol, Milan & Krausz, Vladimir & Harvan, Adrian	Benyovszky,    a Ballet and Musical, performed at Kosice	Slovakia, 2013
Barsi, Dénes	Madagaszkár királya	Budapest, 1943
Ciel, Igor (director)	Vivát Benyovszky!    Slovak-Hungarian TV film series.	Slovakia, 1975
Cseke, Zsolt	Benyovszky Móric és a malgasok földje    6-part documentary for the Hungarian TV channel Duna-Televízió.	Budapest, 2009
Doppler, Ferenc	Benyovszky vagy a kamcsatkai számuzöttek, 1847.    A Hungarian opera: libretto by Rudolf Köffinger; music by Ferenc Doppler. Music published .	[Budapest?], 1855
Dunlap, William	Count Benyowski. A play	New York, 1799
Duval, Alexandre & Boieldieu, François Adrien	Die Verwiesenen auf Kamtschatka, opera. Libretto by Alexandre Duval    Based on Kotzebue (1800). Performed in in German (directed by Georg Treitschke) and in 1813 in Polish.	Vienna, 1804
Gaal, József	Gróf Benyovszky Móric élete és viszontagságai.    A novel for young people.	[Hungary?], 1857
Gvadanyi, Count Joseph	Ronto Palnak, egy magyar lovas kozkatonanak és Grof Benyovszky Moritznak elete. Pozsony    An epic poem.	Pozsony (Bratislava), 1807
Kenney, James	Benyowski, or the Exiles of Kamschatka.    An operatic play following the plot of Kotzebue’s drama. Performed in Drury Lane, March .	London, 1826
Kotzebue, August von	Die Verschwörung auf Kamtschatka	Leipzig, Leipzig
Landelle, Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de la	Le Dernier des Flibustiers, le Roi des Rois (Benyowsky). A. Cedot. (1858)	Paris, 1857
Martens, Kurt	Graf Benyowsky verachtet den Tod    Novel.	Berlin, 1944
Mühlbach, Luise	Benyovszky    Four-volume novel in German. Translated into Hungarian	[Germany?], 1866
Radó, Vilmos	Benyovszky Móric élete és kalandjai    Several reprints.	Budapest, 1889
Render, Rev. William	Count Benyowsky; or, the conspiracy of Kamtschatka. A tragi-comedy, in five acts, by Baron Kotzebue,. Translated from the German (also Dublin, Edinburgh and Cork 1799)	London, 1798
Rónaszegi, Miklós	A nagy játszma    A novel for young people.	Budapest, 1955
Sieroszewski, Waclaw	Beniowski; Ocean    Two novels in a series. Reprinted 2015	Warsaw, 1916/17
Slowacki, Juliusz	Beniowski    4-part epic poem	London/Brussels, 1841-46
Stanciulescu, Irina	Benyovszky, the Rebel Count, Hungary 2012 & 2015.    Film.	Budapest, 2012/15
Thiery, Árpád	Benyovszky gróf    Novel.	Budapest, 1993
Thompson, Benjamin	Count Benyowsky; or, the conspiracy of Kamtschatka. Trans. from the German of Kotzebue. .    (Also printed in: The German Theatre, Vol.2, 1801)	London, 1800
Vulpius, Christian August	Graf Benjowsky. Ein original Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen.     Play, first performed in 1794.	Leipzig, 1795