See also:JOSEPH MARIA VON See also:RADOWITZ (1797-1853)
, Prussian See also:general and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains, his See also:family being of Hungarian origin
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As a See also:young See also:lieutenant in the Westphalian See also:artillery he was wounded and taken prisoner at the See also:battle of See also:Leipzig (1813), subsequently entered the Hanoverian service, and in 1823 that of See also:Prussia
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His promotion was rapid, and in 183o he became See also:chief of the general See also:staff of the artillery
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In 1836 he went as Prussian military plenipotentiary to the federal See also:diet at See also:Frankfort, and in 1842 was appointed See also:envoy to the courts of Carlsruhe, See also:Darmstadt and See also:Nassau
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He had See also:early become an intimate friend of the See also:crown See also:prince (afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV.), and the Prussian constitution of See also:February 1847. was an See also:attempt to realize the ideas put forward by him in his Gespreiche aus der Gegenwart fiber Skutt and Kirche, published under the See also:pseudonym " Waldheim " in 1846
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In See also:November 1847 and See also:March 1848 See also:Radowitz was sent by King Frederick William to See also:Vienna to attempt to arrange See also:common See also:action for the reconstruction of the See also:German See also:Confederation
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In the Frankfort See also:parliament he was See also:leader of the extreme Right; and after its break-up he was zealous in promoting the Unionist policy of Prussia, which he defended both in the Prussian diet and in the See also:Erfurt parliament
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He was practically responsible for the See also:foreign policy of Prussia from May 1848 onwards, and on the 27th of See also:September 185a
he was appointed See also:minister of foreign affairs
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He resigned, however, on the 2nd of November, owing to the king's refusal to See also:settle the difficulties with See also:Austria by an See also:appeal to arms
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In See also:August 1852 he was appointed director of military See also:education; but the See also:rest of his See also:life was devoted mainly to See also:literary pursuits
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He died on the 25th of See also:December 1853
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Radowitz published, in addition to several See also:political See also:treatises, Ikonographie der Heiligen, ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte (See also:Berlin, 1834) and Devisen and Mottos See also:des spdtern Mittelalters (ib., 1850)
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His Gesammelte Schriften'were published in 5 vols. at Berlin, 1852-53
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See Hassel, See also:Joseph Maria von Radowitz (Berlin, 1905, &c.)
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