Karl Ferdinand von Buol
|
Hochgeboren Karl Ferdinand Graf von Buol-Schauenstein |
|
|---|---|
Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1854
|
|
| 1st Chairman of the Austrian Ministers' Conference | |
|
In office 11 April 1852 – 4 May 1859 |
|
| Monarch | Francis Joseph I |
| Preceded by |
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (as Minister-President) |
| Succeeded by | Johann Bernhard Graf von Rechberg |
| 6th Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire | |
|
In office 11 April 1852 – 17 May 1859 |
|
| Preceded by | Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg |
| Succeeded by | Johann Bernhard von Rechberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 May 1797 Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | 28 October 1865 (aged 68) Vienna, Austrian Empire |
Karl Ferdinand von Buol (German: Karl Ferdinand Graf von Buol-Schauenstein; 17 May 1797 – 28 October 1865) was an Austrian diplomatist and statesman, who served as Foreign Minister from 1852 to 1859.
Buol was born in Vienna, a scion of a Grisons noble family descending from Fürstenau. His father Johann Rudolf von Buol (d. 1834) from 1816 until 1823 chaired the Austrian delegation to the Bundesversammlung of the German Confederation.
He joined the Austrian foreign service and served successively as envoy to Baden at Karlsruhe (1828–1838), to Württemberg at Stuttgart (1838–1844), to Sardinia-Piedmont at Turin (1844–1848), to Russia at Saint Petersburg (1848–1850), to the German ministerial conference at Dresden 1850/51, and to the United Kingdom at London (1851–1852). He became an increasingly close associate of the Austrian Minister-President, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, and when Schwarzenberg suddenly died in April 1852, Buol succeeded him as foreign minister, although not as Premier, as the young Emperor Franz Joseph himself now took a more direct role in directing cabinet affairs than he had previously.
...
Wikipedia