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Sigismund von Herberstein was born in 1486 and received a humanist education in Vienna. After graduating from the university, he served for a while in the Habsburg army, and then began his office as an officer in the Austrian Palace. Thanks to his foreign languages, first of all Slavic, he took up significant diplomatic duties in short time. Kayser I. Maximilian, with the appointment of V. Karl and I. Ferdinand went to many centers of Europe, to Russia and even to the presence of the Ottoman Sultan as a messenger. In 1541 Ferdinand I was sent to Buddha with Count Salm to make a ceasefire with the Ottomans on the establishment of Ottoman rule in Hungary. The experience he lived in the Ottoman headquarters where Herberstein went for the first time out of the Christian world with his Ottoman journey was recorded in his autobiography. In addition to being a diplomat, his work and autobiography about Russia is an extent of his intense life. These two works provide researchers with important information about the diplomatic, political, cultural and social life of the period. In his autobiography, the first entrance to the Ottoman headquarters, the meeting with the wizers and the paches, the exit to the presence of the sultan, the gifts given to them by the sultan, the power of the Ottoman army, the eating habits of the Ottoman.

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Sigismund von Herberstein, who was born in 1486, received a humanist education in Vienna. After graduation, he served in the Habsburg army for a while, and then began his career as a civil servant at the Austrian court. Thanks to the foreign languages he knows, especially in Slavic, he quickly promoted important diplomatic missions. He went to many centers of Europe, Russia; even appear of the Ottoman sultan in consequence of commissioned by Kayser Maximilian I, Karl V and Ferdinand I. Upon the establishment of Ottoman rule in Hungary, he was sent to Buda together with Count Salm in 1541 by Ferdinand I for a cease-fire with the Ottomans. Herberstein, who went out of the Christian world for the first time with the Ottoman expedition, wrote his experiences in the Ottoman headquarters in his work. In addition to being a diplomat, his autobiography and works on Russia are projections of his intense life. These two works provide important information about the diplomatic, political, cultural and social life of the period. In his autobiography, the author recorded in detail the subjects such as his first entrance to the Ottoman headquarters, his meeting with the viziers and the pashas, his audience, the gifts given to them by the sultan, the power of the Ottoman army, and the Ottoman cooking habits.