Klemens von Metternich

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Leadership of the Congress of Vienna
Role in the German confederation
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Sigma Iota Rho Online Journal of International Relations - The Master Manipulator: A Historical Analysis of Metternich's Statecraft
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The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College - Creating a Statesman: The Early Life of Prince Clemens von Metternich and its Effect on his Political Philosophy
Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of Ages - Metternich Biography and The Congress of Vienna

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Klemens von Metternich

Austrian statesman

Also known as: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein(Show More)

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Klemens von Metternich (born May 15, 1773, Coblenz, Archbishopric of Trier [Germany]—died June 11, 1859, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian statesman, minister of foreign affairs (1809–48), and a champion of conservatism, who helped form the victorious alliance against Napoleon I and who restored Austria as a leading European power, hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15. Metternich, the descendant of an old Rhenish noble family, was the son of Franz Georg Karl, Graf (count) von...

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