Eugen Karl Czernin from and to Chudenitz

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Eugen Karl Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1867)

Eugen Erwin Carl Johann Nepomuk Maria Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (born November 4, 1796 in Vienna , † June 11, 1868 at Petersburg Palace , Bohemia ) was an Austrian - Bohemian historian and topographer , large landowner and industrialist .

biography

He was the son of the philanthropist and patron Rudolf Count Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1757-1845) from the noble family Czernin von und zu Chudenitz and the Countess Maria Theresa zu Schönborn-Heussenstamm (1758-1838). Count Rudolf founded the Czernin'sche Gemäldegalerie, which Count Eugen had transferred to the Palais Czernin in Josefstadt in 1845 , where it was located until 1954.

Czernin was lord of the lordships of Neuhaus and Chudenitz as well as Petersburg, Schönhof , Maschau and Duppau as well as the landlord of Dollan and Drslawitz in Bohemia. In 1845 he bought the Libědice estate .

He was the Imperial and Royal Chamberlain , Privy Councilor and Colonel-Erbmundschenk in Bohemia. He was also the artistic director of the Vienna Court Theater . He was tutored from 1802 by his tutor and court master Antonin Eduard Zelinka (1772-1854).

He founded the chateau library on Chudenitz, of which around 1,450 works, 75 percent in German, are now owned by the Monuments Office for West Bohemia in Pilsen .

He was a member of the Herrenhaus , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council . He was also a founding member and, since 1865, first chairman of the Slovanská Beseda association ( Eng .: Slavic Conversation ).

Czernin married on May 27, 1817 in Vienna Marie Therese Countess of Orsini and Rosenberg (born September 25, 1798 in Vienna; † April 18, 1866 ibid), the daughter of Field Marshal Franz Seraph Orsini Prince of Rosenberg (1761-1832) and the Karoline Countess von Khevenhüller-Metsch (1767–1811). The couple had four sons and two daughters. Wife Therese was the palace lady of the Austrian Empress Maria Anna , the wife of Emperor Ferdinand I.

literature

  • German nobility samples from the Deutscher Ordens-Central-Archive , page 38, Verlag W. Braumüller, 1881

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility Lexicon , page 388, Verlag Friedrich Voight, 1860 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Moritz Bermann: Austria-Hungary in the nineteenth century , page 348, Verlag Hugo Engel, 1884 ( excerpt )
  3. ^ Goethe Yearbook 1982 , page 237, Goethe-Gesellschaft (Ed.), Wallstein Verlag, 1982 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Bernhard Fabian, Petr Mašek, Karen Kloth: Handbook of German historical book stocks in Europe. An overview of collections in selected libraries , page 120, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1997, ISBN 3487103559 or ISBN 9783487103556 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Monika Glettler: The Viennese Czechs around 1900. Structural analysis of a national minority in the big city , page 84, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1972, ISBN 3486438212 or ISBN 9783486438215 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Czernin from and to Chudenitz, Eugen Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Eugen Karl Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Bohemian historian and topographer, landowner and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1868
Place of death Petersburg , Bohemia