Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence, 1815 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, Clemens Wenceslaus Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Alternative Names
May 15, 1773 in Koblenz
†

June 11, 1859 in Wien
Diplomat, Staatsmann
Wien

Iconography

Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence, 1815 (Source: Wikimedia)

Kynžvart Castle in Bohemia (Source: Wikimedia)

Countess Eleonore of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1775–1825), Metternich's first wife (Source: Wikimedia)

Metternich, c.1808 (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon receiving von Vincent at Erfurt, a congress Metternich was not allowed to attend (Source: Wikimedia)

Metternich was influential in bringing about the marriage of Napoleon to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. Painting by Georges Rouget. (Source: Wikimedia)

Europe in 1812 after several French victories (Source: Wikimedia)

The meeting between French emperor Napoleon I and Austrian diplomat Marquess Klemens von Metternich in the Marcolini Palace in Dresden on 26 June 1813 (Source: Wikimedia)

Karl von Schwarzenberg and the three allied monarchs after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813 (painting by Johann Peter Krafft) (Source: Wikimedia)

Metternich alongside Wellington, Talleyrand and other European diplomats at the Congress of Vienna, 1815 (Source: Wikimedia)

The national boundaries within Europe set by the Congress of Vienna (Source: Wikimedia)

Map of Europe, highlighting the Holy Alliance, formed in 1815, in 1840 (Source: Wikimedia)

Congress memorial in Aachen (Source: Wikimedia)

The murder of August von Kotzebue in 1819 was an opportunity for Metternich to fight against the opposition. (Source: Wikimedia)

A contemporary lithograph mocking the new restrictions on the press and free expression imposed by the Carlsbad Decrees (Source: Wikimedia)

Cartoon from the Congress of Verona (1822) (Source: Wikimedia)

Office Prince Clemens von Metternich 1829 (Source: Wikimedia)

Diet of Hungary of 1830 (Source: Wikimedia)

Metternich in a painting thought to date to between 1835 and 1840 (Source: Wikimedia)

Reception of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich by Prince Metternich in the Vienna Hofburg in 1839 (Source: Wikimedia)

Revolutions of 1848 in Europe (Source: Wikimedia)

Caricature on Metternich's escape from March 1848 (Source: Wikimedia)

Blue plaque in Eaton Square commemorating one of Metternich's London residences during his exile. (Source: Wikimedia)

Photograph of Prince Metternich in old age (Source: Wikimedia)

Cemetery Church of St. Wenceslaus in Plasy, Metternich's burial place (Source: Wikimedia)

Sculpture in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen (c. 1770–1844). (Source: Wikimedia)

Illustration of Metternichia principis (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des Fürst Metternich-Winneburg-Ochsenhausen, Primo Torchiana - um 1820 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis Fürst von Metternich, Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (zugeschrieben) - 1801/1833 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Bildnis des Clemens Wenceslaus Lothar, Fürst von Metternich Winneburg, um 1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A009750 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on December 16, 2017

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