AUSTRIA 1907 Medal by H.Schaefer Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1819-1897) 60mm H-3088

AUSTRIA.

Bronze medal (1907) by H. Schaefer.

 

 Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1819-1897).
On the exhibition "The Child" under the protectorate of Archdukes.

Obv: Uniformed bust right.

Rev: A mother with two children, seated right; in the background the rotunda.

Hauser 3088.



Condition: UNC



Weight: 74.78 g.

Diameter: 60 mm.

Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, later
known as Ferdinand Burg (Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Johann Maria; Vienna, 27
December 1868 – Munich, 12 March 1915) was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Ferdinand Karl was the third son of Archduke
Charles Louis of Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
launched World War I, was his elder brother.



He served as a major-general in the Austrian Army.

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 House of
Habsburg and assumed the name of "Ferdinand Burg", at the demand of Emperor
Franz Joseph. Henceforth he absented himself from the Viennese court and lived
in Tyrol.



By then Ferdinand Karl was suffering from tuberculosis, 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.

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