Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (, ; 2 March 1833 – 13 June 1905) was a member of the

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. He was the second son of

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary Archduke Joseph Anton of Austria (; ; 9 March 1776 – 13 January 1847) was the 103rd and penultimate palatine of Hungary who served for over fifty years from 1796 to 1847, after a period as governor in 1795. The latter half of his service coin ...

(seventh son of

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) and

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline; 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe (now Pokój), Silesia – 30 March 1855 in Pest, Hungary) was the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817) and Princess ...

Biography

Like many junior members of royal families, Archduke Joseph Karl entered the military. He became a Major General in the Austrian Army in 1860. During the

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he commanded a Brigade in the North Army and had three horses shot under him at Königgrätz. In 1867, he became

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after the death of his childless half-brother

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, though the post by that time was symbolic only. The archduke had an interest in the

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and occasionally wrote on this topic to Albert Thomas Sinclair, an American lawyer who shared this interest. A biography of Sinclair notes that the archduke sent a copy of his work, "a large octavo volume handsomely bound. It is a most important and valuable philological work comparing the

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words with

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, etc". As early as the late 1880s, Archduke Joseph advocated turning the poor fishing village of

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into a new health resort. In 1895 the Grand Hotel named after the archduke was opened there. His residence was the

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in Budapest.

Marriage and issue

On 12 May 1864 in

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, Archduke Joseph married

Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Princess Marie Adelheid Amalie ''Clotilde'' of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, (8 July 1846, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, Kingdom of France – 3 June 1927, Alcsút, Hungary) was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by birth and an Archduchess ...

(1846–1927), the elder daughter of

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and

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. They had seven children : * Archduchess Elisabeth Klementine Klothilde Maria Amalie (18 March 1865 – 7 January 1866) * Archduchess Maria Dorothea Amalie (14 June 1867 – 6 April 1932) * Archduchess Margarethe Klementine Maria (6 July 1870 – 2 May 1955) * Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria (9 August 1872 – 6 July 1962) * Archduke Ladislaus Philipp (16 July 1875 – 6 September 1895), no issue * Archduchess Elisabeth Henriette Klothilde Maria Viktoria (9 March 1883 – 8 February 1958), married

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, Hungarian Army Commander in WWII. * Archduchess Klothilde Maria Amalie Philomena Raineria (9 May 1884 – 14 December 1903), no issue.

Honours and awards

He received the following orders and decorations:

Ancestry

References

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