Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein [nb 1] (/ ˈ m ɛ t ər n ɪ x / MET-ər-nikh; 15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), [1] known as Klemens von Metternich (German: [ˈkleːmens fɔn ˈmɛtɐniç]) or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire.

Klemens von Metternich, Austrian statesman, minister of foreign affairs (1809–48), and a champion of conservatism, who helped form the victorious alliance against Napoleon I and who restored Austria as a leading European power, hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15.

The chief strategist of the forces hostile to reform was Metternich. Not only did he reject the teachings of liberalism and nationalism in principle, but also, as the leading statesman of the Habsburg empire, he recognized that the establishment of centralized authority in Germany (which still included Austria) would seriously impede the ...

The 33 years after the end of the Napoleonic Wars are called in Austria—and to some extent in all of Europe—the Age of Metternich.

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein (May 15, 1773 – June 11, 1859) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era.

2024年9月30日 · Metternich was an expert foreign policy strategist and practitioner. His impact on European affairs during the first two decades of the 19th century was arguably second only to Napoleon’s. His legacy and philosophy of diplomacy and statesmanship continue to exert influence over the conduct of foreign affairs.

2023年6月24日 · Clemens Lothar Metternich was a symbol of old Europe in the 19th century. He protected this Europe from Napoleon and from nationalists and revolutionaries in 1848.

Prince Klemens von Metternich was a German-born Austrian politician and statesman and one of the most important diplomats of his era, serving as the Foreign Minister of the Holy Roman Empire and its successor state, the Austrian Empire, from 1809 until the liberal revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

Prince Clemens von Metternich was a statesman who guided Austria's foreign policy for forty years, played a leading role in defeating Napoleon I, and made the Austrian Empire for a time the leading power in Europe and himself its foremost statesman. The future chancellor of the Austrian Empire was born in Koblenz in the Rhineland on 15 May 1773.

Metternich, in the autumn of 1811, came to believe that Napoleon meant to attempt to decisively defeat Russia. He had therefore to walk a tightrope of diplomacy where both Napoleon and the Tsar were broadly happy with Austrian policy.