Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, later known as Ferdinand Burg (Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Johann Maria;

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, 27 December 1868 –

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, 12 March 1915) was a member of the

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Biography

Ferdinand Karl was the third son of

Archduke Charles Louis of Austria Archduke Karl Ludwig Josef Maria of Austria (30 July 1833 – 19 May 1896) was the younger brother of both Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico, and the father of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), whose assassin ...

and

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I. F ...

, whose assassination at

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on 28 June 1914 launched

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, was his elder brother. He served as a major-general in the Austrian Army.

Marriage and issue

Like his brother, in 1909 he concluded an unequal marriage with Bertha Czuber (1879–1979), daughter of Emanuel Czuber. Unlike his brother, he did so without the emperor's knowledge or consent, having eloped two years before the marriage was revealed publicly. On 6 August 1911 he renounced his rights and titles as a dynast of the

and assumed the name of "Ferdinand Burg",C.E.D.R.E., *L'Empire d'Autriche*, Volume II, 1991, p. 197 (French) at the demand of

Emperor Franz Joseph Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...

. Henceforth he absented himself from the Viennese court and lived in

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Death

By then Ferdinand Karl was suffering from

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, of which he died in 1915. He and his wife had no children. A funeral was set for him about four months after his death.

Honours

He received the following orders and decorations:Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie (1911)
Genealogy p. 3

References

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