MILITARY PERSONNEL

Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria

1818 - 1874

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Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (Vienna, 29 July 1818 – Gross Seelowitz (Židlochovice Castle), 20 November 1874) was the second son of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771–1847) and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, and the maternal grandfather of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. A son of the "hero of Aspern", he started his military career in Infantry Regiment 57 in Brno. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria has received more than 195,702 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria is the 459th most popular military personnel (down from 417th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 249th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria was most famous for being assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria ranks 459 out of 2,058. Before him are George I Rákóczi, Xu Chu, Ante Gotovina, José Sanjurjo, Jan Kubiš, and Arthur III, Duke of Brittany. After him are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Max Hoffmann, Lian Po, and Wilhelm von Tegetthoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria ranks 21. Before him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Thomas Mayne Reid, Hermann Kolbe, and Mary Todd Lincoln. After him are Amalia of Oldenburg, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Angelo Secchi, Frederick Douglass, Zachris Topelius, and Emperor Norton. Among people deceased in 1874, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria ranks 8. Before him are Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, David Strauss, and Johann Philipp Reis. After him are Josiah Warren, Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria ranks 273 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (1866), Koloman Moser (1868), Fanny Elssler (1810), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), and Udo Jürgens (1934). After him are Max Steiner (1888), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Walter Kohn (1923), Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653), Hans Hollein (1934), and Gaston Glock (1929).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria ranks 13. Before him are Lothar Rendulic (1887), Alois Brunner (1912), Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817), Gustav Wagner (1911), and Walter Nowotny (1920). After him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Franz Böhme (1885), Karl Silberbauer (1911), Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (1872), and Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924).

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