!!!Karl, Erzherzog von Österreich

b. Florence (Italy), Sept. 5, 1771, 
d. Vienna, April 30, 1847, Duke of Teschen, 3rd son of Grand Duke of 
Tuscany and the future Emperor  Leopold II, brother of Emperor  Franz 
II (I). 1793/1794 governor general of the Austrian Netherlands, 
1796-1800 commander of the Austrian armies in Southern Germany and 
Switzerland, 1801 president of the Supreme War Council and important 
reformer of the imperial army (abolition of lifelong military service, 
1808 establishment of the Austrian militia and of army corps). 
Generalissimo in the war of 1809, victory over Napoleon in the battle 
of  Aspern on May 21/22, 1809, but defeated in the battle of Wagram on 
July 5/6, 1809, signed the armistice of Znaim (Znojmo). Released from 
the command by his brother Emperor Franz I, he retired from public 
life (Weilburg bei Baden). Equestrian statue by A. D. von Fernkorn 
(1860) on the Heldenplatz in Vienna.

!Literature
O. Criste, Erzherzog Carl von Oesterreich, 3 vols., 1912; 
H. Hertenberger and F. Wiltschek, Erzhzg. K. Der Sieger von Aspern, 
1983.



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