Ludwig, count von Cobenzl

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...