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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 227. Chapters: Klemens von Metternich, John von Neumann, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Otto von Habsburg, Friedrich von Wieser, Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels, Ludwig von Mises, Herbert von Karajan, Ficquelmont family, Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Rudolf Carl von Slatin, Princess Michael of Kent, Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Walther von der Vogelweide, Robert Musil, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Maria von Trapp, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Rudolf Stoger-Steiner von Steinstatten, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Karl von Frisch, House of Eggenberg, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Wolfgang von Graben, Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Svetozar Boroevi, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Alida Valli, Kurt Schuschnigg, Richard von Mises, Theodore von Karman, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Count Leopold Berchtold, Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Count Ottokar von Czernin, Alois von Gavasini, Franz von Liszt, Alexius Meinong, Mathias Franz Graf von Chorinsky Freiherr von Ledske, Karl von Terzaghi, Maria Anna von Genzinger, Anton Schubirz von Chobinin, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Leopold von Mildenstein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Albert I of Germany, Georg von Bekesy, Constantin von Economo, List of princes of Austria-Hungary, Adolph Aloys von Braun, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Gregor von Rezzori, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Johann Amadeus Francis de Paula, Baron of Thugut, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Khevenhuller, Philipp von Ferrary, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Friedrich von Hugel, Eugen Bohm von Bawerk, Bernhard von Wullerstorf-Urbair, Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, List of counts of Austria-Hungary, Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont, Alexander, Count of Hoyos, Christoph Anton Migazzi, Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Franz-Joseph Muller von Reichenstein, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Ignaz von Born, Felix Weingartner, Eric de Kolb, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Jurij Vega. Excerpt: Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (full name German: , anglicised as Clement Wenceslas Lothar von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein; 15 May 1773 - 11 June 1859) was an Austrian politician and statesman of Rhenish extraction and one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Foreign Minister of the Holy Roman Empire and its successor state, the Austrian Empire, from 1809 until the liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation. One of his first tasks was to engineer a detente with France that included the marriage of Napoleon to the Austrian Arch-Duchess Marie Louise. Soon after, however, he engineered Austria's entry into the War of the Sixth Coalition on the Allied side, signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau that sent Napoleon into exile and led the Austrian delegation at the Congress of Vienna which divided post-Napoleonic Europe between the major powers. In recognition of his service to the Austrian Empire he was raised to the title of Prince in October 1813. Under his guidance, the "Metternich system" of international congresses continued for another decade as Austria aligned herself with Russia and, to a lesser extent, Prussia. This marked the high point of Austria's diplomatic importance, and thereafter Metternich slowly slipped back into the periphery of international diplomacy. At home, Metternich also held the post of Chancellor of State from 1821 until 1848, under both Francis II of Austria and his son Ferdinand I of Austria. After a brief period of exile in London, Brighton and Brussels that lasted until 1851, he returned once more to the Viennese court, this time to offer only advice to Ferdinand's successor, Franz Josef. Having outlived his generation of politicians, Metternich died at the age of 86 in 1859. Born into the House of Metternich in 1773 as the son of a..
