MILITARY PERSONNEL

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

1766 - 1858

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Johann Josef Wenzel Anton Franz Karl, Graf Radetzky von Radetz (2 November 1766 – 5 January 1858) was a Czech nobleman and Austrian field marshal. He served as chief of the general staff in the Habsburg monarchy during the later period of the Napoleonic Wars and proved instrumental in the allied victory as one of the primary architects of the Trachenberg Plan and the Leipzig Campaign. Afterwards, he embarked on military reforms of the Austrian army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Radetzky von Radetz has received more than 569,637 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Joseph Radetzky von Radetz is the 70th most popular military personnel (down from 67th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Military Personnel.

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz is most famous for being a military commander and field marshal of the Austrian Empire.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ranks 70 out of 2,058. Before him are Ferdinand Foch, Stanislav Petrov, Fedor von Bock, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Germanicus, and Yevgeny Prigozhin. After him are Walter Model, Erich Raeder, Ahmad Sanjar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Alexander Suvorov, and Tadeusz Kościuszko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ranks 3. Before him are John Dalton, and Thomas Robert Malthus. After him are Germaine de Staël, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Nikolay Karamzin, Johanna Schopenhauer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1858, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ranks 2. Before him is Robert Owen. After him are Robert Brown, Hiroshige, Rani of Jhansi, Matthew C. Perry, Johannes Peter Müller, Karl Thomas Mozart, Anton Diabelli, John Snow, Ary Scheffer, and Aimé Bonpland.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ranks 27 out of 1,200. Before him are Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Kurt Gödel (1906), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Ernst Mach (1838), and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850). After him are Miloš Forman (1932), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), and Hans Kelsen (1881).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Czechia

Among military personnels born in Czechia, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ranks 3. Before him are Jan Žižka (1360), and Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583). After him are Kurt Knispel (1921), Prokop the Great (1380), Jan Kubiš (1913), Otto Kittel (1917), Julius von Payer (1841), Erhard Raus (1889), Karl Fritzsch (1903), Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), and Moritz von Auffenberg (1852).

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