!!!Albrecht, Erzherzog von Österreich

b. Vienna, Aug. 3, 1817, 
d. Arco (Italy), Feb. 18, 1895, military commander; eldest son of 
Archduke  Karl, from 1845 Field Marshal in Upper and Lower Austria and 
Salzburg, served in the military during the 1848 revolution in 
Austria, 1851-1860 Governor-General of Hungary, achieved a victory 
over the Italians at Custozza in 1866, later appointed 
Inspector-General of the Army and regarded as "eminence grise". 
Equestrian statue by C. von Zumbusch erected in Vienna 
("Albrechtsrampe") in 1899.

!Literature
B. Hamann, Erzherzog Albrecht, in: Politik und 
Gesellschaft im alten Oesterreich, vol. 1, 1981; J. C. Allmayer-Beck, 
Der stumme Reiter. Erzherzog A., der Feldherr "Gesamt-Oesterreichs", 
1997; OeBL.



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