Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Austrian Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. H
Schwarzenberg, Felix
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria with Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron von Bach in 1848
Ferdinand I of Austria
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Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, King of Lombardy–Venetia and holder of other lesser titles.
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg
…November 1848. In these offices, which he both held until his premature death, his first step was to secure the replacement of incapacitated Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria by his nephew Francis Joseph. After heir presumptive Archduke Franz Karl had renounced the succession, Ferdinand abdicated in Olomouc on 2 December…
Ferdinand I in the uniform of an Austrian field marshal, by Eduard Edlinger, c. 1843
Double portrait of Ferdinand and Maria Anna of Savoy
Coronation of King Ferdinand V in 1836 in Prague
State portrait of Ferdinand I in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Leopold Kupelwieser, 1847