Travel Narratives and Economic Discourse

Travel Narratives and Economic Discourse

In 1820, Count László Festetics, patron of the ›Georgicon‹—an agricultural college founded in 1797 in Keszthely—commissioned two young instructors to embark on an extended study tour across Western Europe. According to the instructions issued by their patron, Pál Gerics, a physician and veterinary doctor, and József Lehrmann, a horticulturist and oenologist, were to visit the leading scholars, universities, and aristocratic model estates of the time.