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See also:BARON VON HANS CHRISTOPH See also:ERNST See also:GAGERN (1766-'852)
, See also:German statesman and See also:political writer, was See also:born at Kleinniedesheim, near See also:Worms, on the 25th of See also:January 1766
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After studying See also:law at the See also:universities of See also:Leipzig and See also:Gottingen, he entered the service of the See also:prince of See also:Nassau-See also:Weilburg, whom in 1791 he represented at the imperial See also:diet
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He was afterwards appointed the prince's See also:envoy at See also:Paris, where he remained till the See also:decree of See also:Napoleon, forbidding all persons born on the See also:left See also:side of the See also:Rhine to serve any other See also:state than See also:France, compelled him to resign his See also:office (1811)
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He then retired to See also:Vienna, and in 1812 he took See also:part in the See also:attempt to excite a second insurrection against Napoleon in See also:Tirol
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On the failure of this attempt he left See also:Austria and joined the headquarters of the Prussian See also:army (1813), and became a member of the See also:board of See also:administration for See also:north See also:Germany
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In 1814 he was appointed See also:administrator of the See also:Orange principalities; and, when the prince of Orange became See also: (See also:Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1823–1845) . |
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