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Ferdinand I., Ex-Emperor of Austria

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 5.

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Ferdinand I., Ex-Emperor of Austria.

The ex-Emperor of Austria, Ferdinand I., died at Prague, in Bohemia, Tuesday. He abdicated during October, 1848, in favor of his nephew, Francis II. The latter part of his reign, which began in March, 1832, was marked by political disturbances, and uprisings against the crown. Dr. Doran says of him that “he reigned under the simple illusion that he governed; but he really did neither. His cretinism rendered him incapable, but his imbecility concealed from him his want of capacity.”
Ferdinand was born in 1793, and was forty-two years of age when he succeeded his father on the throne.