The Prochaska Affair Revisited: Towards a Revaluation of Austria-Hungary’s Balkan Consuls

Consuls and consular diplomacy in the long nineteenth century are enjoying a growing interest across various historiographies. This article explores prominent case of Austro-Hungarian consul Oskar Prochaska an effort to offer insight into officials as actors empire Habsburg setting. Prochaska, who famously got caught up major diplomatic crisis during First Balkan War 1912, has never been studied protagonist events that came be known Affair. calls for analysis Prochaska’s activity consul, understood here his social interaction with counterparts adversaries on ground Prizren, Kosovo. Adopting local perspective European global importance, argues revaluation consuls their bureaucracy promising subject cultural histories Empire its foreign policy, both Balkans around world.