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'Fürst Metternich 1773-1859', 1934. Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (1773-1859), Austrian diplomat and statesman and one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Austrian Empire's Foreign Minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]