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Ludwig, count von Cobenzl

foreign minister of Austria
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Born:
November 21, 1753, Brussels [Belgium]
Died:
February 22, 1809, Vienna [Austria] (aged 55)
Title / Office:
foreign minister (1800-1805), Austria

Ludwig, count von Cobenzl (born November 21, 1753, Brussels [Belgium]—died February 22, 1809, Vienna [Austria]) was an Austrian diplomat and foreign minister who played a leading role in the Third Partition of Poland (1795) and the negotiations of several treaties with Napoleonic France. He was the cousin of Philipp, Graf von Cobenzl, an Austrian chancellor. A protégé of the Austrian chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Cobenzl became minister at St. Petersburg in 1779. At the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, he gained sizable territories for his country in compensation for Austria’s exclusion from the Second Partition. At the peace ...(100 of 164 words)

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