Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Heinrich Johann Maria Graf von Coudenhove , since 1903 Count von Coudenhove-Kalergi (born October 12, 1859 in Vienna , † May 14, 1906 in Ronsperg ), was an Austrian diplomat and citizen of the world. On his father's side , he came from the House of Coudenhove , who lived in Bohemia but came from Brabant , and on his mother's side from the Byzantine - Cretan noble family Kalergi .

Life

After studying the rights and the philosophy and subsequent promotion his employment led the polyglot Coudenhove, the 16 languages, including Turkish , Arabic , Hebrew and Japanese dominated, after Athens , Rio de Janeiro , Konstantin Opel and Buenos Aires , later he was chargé Austria - Hungary in Japan . During this time, in which he was extensively involved with Buddhism , he met his future wife Mitsuko (1874–1941), whom he married in 1892. The marriage resulted in seven children, including the founder of the Paneuropean movement , Richard Nikolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), and the writer Ida Friederike Görres .

He had categorically ruled out to his family return to Austria, but after the death of his father he had the diplomatic service acknowledge, to help manage the family livings to take over, as these per Testament had fallen to its standing still in infancy eldest son John.

At Ronsperg Castle, the family seat (today located in the Czech Republic ), he set up an extensive library on philosophy , ethics , religion , mysticism , church and religious history ; He also put on an extensive collection on Judaism and anti-Semitism . The completion of an extensive study of the thinking, religions and cultures of Europe and Asia failed because of his untimely death; at the age of only 46 he died of a heart attack .

His library has been preserved to this day. It is administered by the National Museum in Prague .

literature

Part of Heinrich Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi
  • William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind. An intellectual and social history, 1848-1938. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1972, ISBN 0-520-01701-3 .
  • Bernhard Setzwein , The Bohemian Samurai, Roman, Innsbruck-Vienna (Haymon) 2017

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