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ANTON VON SCHMERLING (1805-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTON VON

SCHMERLING (1805-1893)  ,
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Austrian statesman, was born on the 23rd of August 18o5 at Vienna, where his
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father held a high position on the judicial side of the
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civil service . After studying law at Vienna, in 1829 he entered the public service, and during the next eighteen years was constantly occupied, chiefly in
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Lower Austria . In 1847, as a member of the lesser
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nobility, he entered the Estates of Lower Austria; and took an active
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part in the Liberal
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movement for administrative and constitutional reform of which they were the centre . On the outbreak of the revolution in Vienna in March 1848, when the
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mob broke into the Assembly, Schmerling was one of the deputation which carried to the palace the demands of the
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people, and during the next few days he was much occupied in organizing the newly formed
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National Guard . At the end of the month he was sent by the
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ministry to
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Frankfort as one of the men of " public confidence." He soon succeeded Count Colleredo as president of the
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Diet, and in this capacity officially transferred to the archduke John, who had been elected regent of Germany, the powers of the Diet .

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