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Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria-Teschen (Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus von Österreich, later Karl Albrecht Habsburg-Lothringen, since 1919 – Karol Olbracht Habsburg-Lotaryński; 18 December 1888 – 17 March 1951) was an Austrian military officer, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen (3 August 1817 – 18 February 1895), was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military advisors of Emperor Francis Joseph I.
Archduke Albrecht was the eminence grise in the circle around Emperor Franz Joseph. His military successes had secured him a position of authority at the Viennese Court.
One of the most conservative Habsburg personalities in the nineteenth century, Archduke Albrecht came to symbolize the upholding of the Absolutist values that were widely shared in the dynasty and diametrically opposed to the modernizing currents prevailing in society at the turn of the century.
Should you emerge from the home of Picassos, Modiglianis and more, a sculpture of a rather different kind confronts you: the monument to Archduke Albrecht, the Duke of Teschen (not someone likely to have approved of modern art). Bronze equestrian statue unveiled in 1899.
Albrecht was one of the most conservative Habsburgs of the nineteenth century. He became a symbol of the traditional monarchical values that were widely held in the dynasty and were to be so diametrically opposed to the modernizing currents abroad in society around 1900.
Albert VII (German: Albrecht VII; 13 November 1559 – 13 July 1621) was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621.
