Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (soldier)

Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (Czech: kníže Bedřich Schwarzenberg; 1800–1870) had an adventurous career as a soldier, and described his wanderings and campaigns in several interesting works, of which the best known is his Wanderungen eines Lanzknechtes (1844–1845).

Lithograph from the 1830s

Early life

Born into an illustrious House of Schwarzenberg, he was the eldest son of the famous Field Marshal Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg and his wife Countess Maria Anna von Hohenfeld (1768-1848), widowed Princess Esterhazy.

Biography

He took part as an Austrian officer in the campaigns of Galicia 1846, Italy 1848 and Hungary 1848, and as an amateur in the French conquest of Algeria, the Carlist Wars in Spain and the Swiss civil war of the Sonderbund. He became a major-general in the Austrian army in 1849, and died after many years of well-filled leisure in 1870.

Friedrich was briefly engaged to Princess Elisa Radziwill, but the engagement was called off.

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