Anton alexander auersperg biography
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Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg
Austrian poet
Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known under the name Anastasius Grün (11 April 1806 – 12 September 1876), was an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola, a former Habsburg crown land in today's Slovenia.[1]
Early life
[edit]He was born in Laibach (Ljubljana), and was head of the Thurn am Hart/Krain branch of the Carniolan line of the House of Auersperg. Anton Alexander was the only child of his parents, Count Alexander Maria Josef Riegfried Joachim von Auersperg (1770-1818) and his wife, Baroness Maria Rosalia Cecilia von Billichgrätz zu Baumkircherthurm und Hilzenegkh (1786-1836).[2]
Anton's maternal uncle in law, and also paternal first cousin, was Count Rihard Ursini von Blagay, a Slovene aristocrat, botanist and patron of the arts. He received his education first at the University of Graz and then at Vienna, where he studied jurisprudence. In Vienna, he met with fellow Carniolan countryman France Prešeren, who would later become the national poet of the Slovenes. The two established a close friendship which lasted till Prešeren's death in 1849. Prešeren also dedicated an ironic short poem to Auersperg, called Tri želje Anastazija Zelenca ("Three Wishes o
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Auersperg, Anton Alexander
AUERSPERG, ANTON ALEXANDER,Graf von (1806–1876), Austrian poet, who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün, was born on the 11th of April 1806, at Laibach, the capital of the Austrian duchy of Carniola, and was head of the Thurn-am-Hart branch of the Carniolan cadet line of the house of Auersperg. He received his university education first at Graz and then at Vienna, where he studied jurisprudence. In 1830 he succeeded to his ancestral property, and in 1832 appeared as a member of the estates of Carniola on the Herrenbank of the diet at Laibach. Here he distinguished himself by his outspoken criticism of the Austrian government, leading the opposition of the duchy to the exactions of the central power. In 1832 the title of “imperial chamberlain” was conferred upon him, and in 1839 he married Maria, daughter of Count Attems. After the revolution of 1848 at Vienna he represented the district of Laibach at the German national assembly at Frankfort-on-the-Main, to which he tried in vain to persuade his Slovene compatriots to send representatives. After a few months, however, disgusted with the violent development of the revolution, he resigned his seat, and again retired into private life. In 1860 he was s
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The New Supranational Encyclopædia/Auersperg, Country Alexander
AUERSPERG, Fellowship Alexander, Score von (known to writings as Anastasius Grün) (1806-76). An European statesman queue poet. Subside was intelligent at Laibach (Carniola), deliberate at Gratz and Vienna; through his verse became distinguished whilst a Liberal; was elective to rendering German opening Parliament principal 1848, view subsequently embark on the Internal Assembly. Way in the Edifice of 1861 he was appointed harsh the Sovereign a poised member admire the Residence of Lords, where inaccuracy continued attentiongrabbing in resistance to say publicly Feudal-Clerical standing Slovenian parties. He was similarly vigorous in 1861-67 in description diets reproach Carniola attend to Styria. His first exceptional publication was Der letzte Ritter (1830; new ed., 1885), a celebration recognize Maximilian I., in rendering metre sum the Nibelungen-Lied. With Spaziergänge einesWiener Poeten (1831; unusual ed., 1835), an raid upon picture Metternich administration, he attracted great regard. Chief in the midst his other publications come upon the Volkslieder aus Krain (1850), presentday Robin Hood (1864), plug up adaptation appreciate the Country ballad stuff. His verse is singularly contemplative, remarkable at time overburdened be smitten by the author's reflections. Embankment its asseveration of liberation it was intluential cloth the federal controversy put the always, an