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Melchior Klesl

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Klesl also spelled:
Khlesl
Born:
Feb. 19, 1552, Vienna [Austria]
Died:
Sept. 18, 1630, Vienna (aged 78)

Melchior Klesl (born Feb. 19, 1552, Vienna [Austria]—died Sept. 18, 1630, Vienna) was an Austrian statesman, bishop of Vienna and later a cardinal, who tried to promote religious toleration during the Counter-Reformation in Austria. Converted from Protestantism by the Jesuits, he became an outstanding preacher and served as bishop of Vienna from the 1590s. Klesl became the most trusted adviser of the Habsburg archduke Matthias, king of Hungary and of Bohemia, and helped to procure his patron’s election as Holy Roman emperor (June 13, 1612). He was then appointed director of the privy council and was allowed by Matthias to ...(100 of 186 words)

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