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Johann Weikhart, prince von Auersperg
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Johann Weikhart, prince von Auersperg

Austrian statesman
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March 11, 1615
Died:
Nov. 13, 1677, Laibach, Carniola, Austrian Empire [now Ljubljana, Slovenia] (aged 62)
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Johann Weikhart, prince von Auersperg (born March 11, 1615—died Nov. 13, 1677, Laibach, Carniola, Austrian Empire [now Ljubljana, Slovenia]) was an Austrian diplomat and statesman, head of the Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) under the Habsburg emperor Leopold I. After serving briefly as a Habsburg court councillor, Auersperg was sent to The Hague (1641), and later he took part in peace negotiations at Osnabrück, which ultimately ended the Thirty Years’ War with the Peace of Westphalia (1648). After the death of the empire’s chief minister, Maximilian von Trauttmansdorff (1650), Auersperg gradually achieved preeminence, especially after Leopold I became emperor. As chief privy ...(100 of 139 words)

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