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JOSEPH MARIA VON RADOWITZ (1797-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . His promotion was rapid, and in 183o he became See also:chief of the general See also:staff of the artillery . 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 . He had See also:early become an intimate friend of the See also:crown See also:prince (afterwards See also:King See also:Frederick See also: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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . He died on the 25th of See also:December 1853 . 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) .

His Gesammelte Schriften'were published in 5 vols. at Berlin, 1852-53 . See Hassel, See also:

Joseph Maria von Radowitz (Berlin, 1905, &c.) .

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