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

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