Ludwig von Paar

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Count Ludwig Johann Baptist Emanuel von Paar (born March 26, 1817 ; † January 6, 1893 ) was an Austrian diplomat and art collector.

Life

Family coat of arms , from: Tyroff: Book of Arms of the Austrian Monarchy , 1831–1868

Ludwig von Paar was a member of the Austrian noble family von Paar . His father was Johann Karl Fürst von Paar (1773–1819); Karl Johann Fürst von Paar (1806–1881) was his older brother. Ludwig was in the foreign service of the kk, later kuk monarchy and was Austrian ambassador to Sardinia-Piedmont from 1853 to 1857 , then from 1857 to 1859 in the same function in Modena .

On June 14, 1858 he married Marie Anna geb. Countess Esterházy -Galantha (1834-1863) and moved a year later than kk ambassador to the Swedish court of Stockholm . From 1864 to 1866 he held the same position at the Hessian court in Kassel ; after a mission as the now Austro-Hungarian envoy to the Saxon court in Dresden (1869 to 1872), he was transferred as ambassador to the Holy See in Rome in 1873 , and remained in this post until 1888. Von Paar owned a notable collection of autographs, among others also letters from Michelangelo . He was also the owner of Mozart's children's violin , which his son gave to the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1896 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 , Böhlau, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-205-072-693
  2. ↑ couple . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. A. Altenburg, S. 543 ( zeno.org ).
  3. ^ A b Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , KG Saur, Munich 2012
  4. ↑ Günther Mecklenburg: Vom Autographensameln: Attempt to portray his nature and history in the German-speaking area , JA Stargardt, Berlin 1963, p. 57
predecessor Office successor
Rudolf Apponyi from Nagy-Appony Austrian envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont
1853–1857 		-
Eduard von Lebzeltern-Collenbach Austrian envoy in Modena
1857-1859 		-
Ferdinand von Langenau Austrian envoy to Sweden
1859–1863 		Ladislaus von Karnicki
Ladislaus von Karnicki Austrian envoy in Hessen-Kassel
1864–1866 		-
Joseph von Werner Austro-Hungarian envoy to Saxony
1869–1872 		Johann Karl von Frankenstein
Raphael von Hübener Austro-Hungarian envoy to the Holy See
1873–1888 		Friedrich Revertera by Salandra
personal data
SURNAME Couple, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Couple, Ludwig Johann Baptist Emanuel von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1817
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1893