!!!Khevenhüller-Metsch, Johann Joseph Fürst

b. Vienna, July 3, 1706, 
d. Vienna, April 18, 1776, statesman. 1728 member of the Imperial 
Council, 1734-1737 envoy to Holland and Denmark, 1740 to Dresden, 1742 
Lord Steward and First Chamberlain to Maria Theresia, state and 
conference minister, music count. For 33 years he kept a diary, which 
serves as an important source about court life in the years 1742-1775. 
Called K.-M. because of his marriage to the daughter of the last Count 
of Metsch.

!Works
Aus der Zeit Maria Theresias, 7 vols., 1907-1925 (vol. 8 ed. by 
M. Beunlich-Pawlik and H. Wagner, 1972).



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