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  Wenzel Anton Kaunitz
The paramount influence which Kaunitz wielded during the reign of Maria Theresa grew considerably less during the reign of her son, Joseph II.
Territorial expansion, increase of the central state authority and limitation of the authority of the nobility, entire subjection of the Church to the State, the supervision of the latter over the former even in the minutest ritual and disciplinary regulations, a better education of the common people, and more consideration for their legal rights.
In matters of religion Kaunitz was one of the foremost adherents of the intellectual movement known as the "Enlightenment" (Aufklärung).
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  Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (en: Count Wenceslaus Anthony von Kaunitz, cz: Václav Antonín hrabě Kounic-Rietberg) (February 2, 1711 – June 27, 1794), born into an old Bohemian noble family settled in Moravia, was an Austrian statesman.
In 1764 he was styled Reichsfürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg (Imperial Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg), his father having been Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz, and his mother having been Marie Ernestine von Ostfriesland-Rietberg.
During his career, he was Austria's ambassador in Turin, minister in the Austrian Netherlands during the absence of its ruler Prince Charles of Lorraine; he represented Austria at the Congress of Aachen at the close of the War of the Austrian Succession (1748) and was ambassador in Paris.
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 Klemens Wenzel von Metternich - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneberg-Beilstein (May 15, 1773 – June 11, 1858) (sometimes rendered in English as Prince Klemens Metternich) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era.
Metternich was born in Coblenz into minor Westphalian nobility, and one of his earliest diplomatic coups was to marry the granddaughter of the powerful and wealthy Austrian chancellor Count Wenzel von Kaunitz in 1795.
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 Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich Winneburg - LoveToKnow 1911
Metternich was a witness of the excesses of the mob in Strassburg, and he ascribed his life-long hatred of political innovation to these early experiences of the victory of liberal ideas.
In 1790, by way of striking contrast, he was deputed by the Catholic bench of the Westphalian college of counts to act as their master of the ceremonies at the coronation of the Emperor aeopold II.
Count Bubna was accordingly sent to SchOnbrunn; the result was the French ultimatum which issued in the treaty of Schkinbrunn (Vienna), signed by Prince aiechtenstein on behalf of the emperor Francis on the 14th of October 1809.
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 Klemens Wenzel von Metternich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneberg-Beilstein (May 15, 1773 – June 11, 1859) (sometimes rendered in English as Prince Klemens Metternich, or in some books, Clement Wenceslaus von Metternich) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era.
Metternich was born in Coblenz, Germany, then part of the Archbishopric of Trier, the son of Franz Georg Karl von Metternich.
One of his earliest diplomatic coups was to marry the granddaughter of the powerful and wealthy Austrian chancellor Count Wenzel von Kaunitz in 1795.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Klemens von Metternich
Fürst Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich (May 15, 1773 - June 11, 1858) (sometimes rendered in English as Prince Clemens Metternich) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era.
Metternich was born in Coblenz into minor Westphalian nobility, and one of his earliest diplomatic coups was to marry the granddaughter of the powerful and wealthy Austrian chancellor Count Wenzel von Kaunitz in 1795.
Following Austria's disastrous defeat by Napoleon in 1809, Metternich was made Austria's Foreign Minister, replacing Johann Philipp von Stadion[?], and pursued a pro-French policy, going so far as to engineer the marriage of Napoleon to Marie-Louise, Emperor Francis's daughter.
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 General von Steuben
Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph Gerhard Augustin von Steuben was born in Magdeburg, a fortress-town on the Elbe River.
Wenzel Anton Fürst von Kaunitz, Austrian State-Chancellor and ambassador to the French court from 1750 to 1753, achieved the diplomatic coup of his age by negotiating the alliance of France and Austria, hereditary adversaries.
With the Peace of Hubertsburg, Captain von Steuben was discharged from the staff of General Friedrich Wilhelm von Gaudy, commander of the regiment of Salmuth, in the general demobilization of 1763.
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 Wenzel Screen House
Hanni Wenzel (born in Straubing, Germany on December 14, 1956) is an alpine skier from Liechtenstein.
Wenzel Storch (born 1961 in Braunschweig) is a German film director and producer.
Wenzel (or Wenceslaus) Hollar (Vaclav Holar) (July 13, 1607 - March 28, 1677), Bohemian etcher, was born at Prague, and died in London, being buried at St Margaret's church, Westminster.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
Wenzel Anton Graf (Count) von Kaunitz-Rietberg (February 2, 1711 - June 27, 1794) was an Austrian statesman.
Kaunitz should have become a clergyman when he was a boy, but he soon decided otherwise and studied law instead.
generally shared such ideas, Kaunitz' influence grew less during Joseph's reign, even less when Joseph's brother Leopold II.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wenzel Anton Kaunitz
Silesia and Glatz, guaranteeing them to Frederick II, Kaunitz sought a way to regain these provinces and destroy the predominance of the King of Prussia.
He favoured the first Partition of Poland in 1772, was instrumental in obtaining Bukowina from the Turks in 1775, and, though unsuccessful in his intended annexation of Bavaria in 1778, he obtained for Austria at the Peace of Teschen in May, 1779, the so-called Innviertel, i.e.
religion Kaunitz was one of the foremost adherents of the intellectual movement known as the "Enlightenment" (Aufklärung).
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 KAULBACH, WILHELM VON ... - Online Information article about KAULBACH, WILHELM VON ...
count of Kaunitz, and married an heiress, Maria Ernestine Franziska von Rietburg.
Kaunitz, either because he was really persuaded that the old policy must be given up, or because he saw that the dominating idea in the mind of Maria Theresa was the recovery of See also:
With all his pomposity and conceit, Kaunitz was astute, he was laborious and orderly; when his advice was not taken he would carry out the wishes of his masters, while no defeat ever damped his pertinacity.
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 Baron von Steuben oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustus Steuben, Baron von Steuben (September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794) was a Prussian army officer who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching American troops the essentials of military drill and discipline.
After the accession of Frederich II of Prussia to the throne, von Steuben returned to Germany with his father in 1740.
Von Steuben was born in Magdeburg fortress where his father was an engineer lieutenant in the military in 1730.
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 The Subscriber List to Mozart's Private Concert Series in 1784 MozartForum Articles
Herberstein, Count Nepomuk: Johann Nepomuk Thaddäus, Count Herberstein.
Sauer, Count: Wenzel Ferdinand Kajetan, Count Sauer, Aulic Councillor of the Bohemian-Austrian Court Chancellery, later Governor and District Captain of the Tyrol; (or it could be) Kajetan, Count Sauer von und Ankerstein, Chamberlain, Privy Councillor, Vice-President in pleno of the Innerösterreichische Gubernium.
Vockel, Baron: Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Vockel, Councillor of Legation and Resident Minister for the Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg and Wolfenbüttel, Resident Minister for the Prince of Orange-Nassau (Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Netherlands).
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 Wenzel Anton, Count von Kaunitz - Encyclopedia.com
Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton, Count von (1711–94) Austrian diplomat and statesman.
He was convinced that Prussia was Austria's most dangerous enemy and his main diplomatic feat was to reverse (1756–57) long-standing European alliances, but Britain remained opposed to France and Austria stayed allied to Russia.
Although the ambitions of FREDERICK II (the Great) were not fully checked, Kaunitz was a leading negotiator of the Treaty of Paris (1763).
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 Stella Polaris
As the most senior high-ranking officer, general Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg [2], is appointed as the commander-in-chief of all the land forces rallied by the Cap Council, amounting to approx.
The hard-pressed von Rosen is effectively unable to exploit the delay in the arrival of Keith's reinforcements during the crucial August and September weeks.
The discussions between Bestuzhev and Count Brahe result in preliminary plans for the reconquest of Rügen, the capture of Wolin and Usedom and the destruction of the Prussian Navy in the spring and the summer of 1753.
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 Austrian Lands to 1918
1895 - 1911 Erich Graf von Kielmannsegg (s.a.)
1726 - 19 Sep 1734 Siegmund Rudolf Graf von Wagensberg(b.
1763 - 1773 Johann Gottfried Graf von Heister
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 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
May 15, 1773 – Klemens von Metternich was born to an aristocratic family
1795 – Metternich married the daughter of Count Wenzel von Kaunitz, Countess Eleanor Kaunitz, who was the wealthy Austrian chancellor.
June 11, 1859 – Klevens von Metternich died in Vienna at the age of 86.
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 Bob Wenzel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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 Wenzel Pressure Lantern -- Recommendations and Resources
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Josef Wenzel Karl (1696 - 1772) was a prince of Liechtenstein between 1748 and 1772.
Carl Friedrich Wenzel (Unknown 1740 – February 27 1793) Was a german chemist who determined the reaction rates of various chemicals, establishing, for example, that the amount of metal that dissolves in an acid is proportional to the concentration of acid in the solution.
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 H-Net Review: Tim Blanning on Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711-1794: Neue ...
Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711-1794: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung.
Ein Kunstmaezen und Curieux der Aufklaerung" R.J.W. Evans, "Moravia and the culture of the Enlightenment in the Habsburg Monarchy" Horst Carl, "Kaunitz und Ostfriesland.
A group of contributions on Kaunitz as patriarch, landowner and patron of the arts is both original and illuminating.
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 The Mozart Project: "Amadeus" and Mozart
During his younger years, he was a student of Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718-63), and in 1762 he played the organ for a litany by Johann Adolf Hasse that was composed expressly to be performed by the imperial family.
No doubt a letter Leopold sent to the Baroness von Waldstadten in Vienna was a central source for the Amadeus character: "When I was a young fellow I used to think that philosophers were people who said little, seldom laughed and turned a sulky face upon the world in general.
It was ordered by Count Walsegg-Stuppach for his wife, and he pawned it off as his own composition, a common practice of his.
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Although the integrity of the empire was preserved with this one exception, Habsburg bitterness toward Prussia became extreme.
Maria Theresa at this time enjoyed the services of one of the most able diplomats of the century, Count Wenzel von Kaunitz.
Judging Prussia to be the most dangerous enemy of the state, he attempted to form a diplomatic front against that power.
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 The Hungarian Quarterly, VOLUME XL * No. 155 * Autumn 1999 - Gábor Vermes
This book presents excellent portraits of major figures in Vienna, including Maria Theresa herself, Count (later Prince) Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz and Count Karl von Zinzendorf, who had paramount influence on the governance of Hungary.
These portraits are complemented by the author’s perceptive depiction of Joseph von Sonnenfels, the behind-the-scenes architect of Maria Theresa’s enlightened reforms.
Balázs is also effective in demolishing the old shibboleth in Hungarian historiography that reproaches the aristocrats, especially those who chose to live in Vienna, for becoming "denationalized courtiers." Balázs attempts to show, through the use of several examples, how these aristocrats did "pursue a distinctive brand of patriotism." (p.
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 BookRags: Klemens von Metternich Biography
Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian politician and diplomat, suppressed nationalistic and democratic trends in Central Europe but was also the architect of a diplomatic system which kept Europe at peace for a century.
Today, more than 100 years after his death, Prince Klemens von Metternich remains a controversial figure.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
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