II. LUDWIG ALOYSIUS, prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
(1765-1829), marshal and peer of France, was born on the 18th of August
1765. In 1784 he entered the service of the Palatinate, which he quitted
in 1792 in order to take the command of a regiment raised by his father
for the service of the emigrant princes of France. He greatly
distinguished himself under Conde in the campaigns of 1792-1793,
especially at the storming of the lines of Weissenburg. Subsequently he
entered the service of Holland, and, when almost surrounded by the army
of General Pichegru, conducted a masterly retreat from the island of
Bommel. From 1794 to 1799 he served as colonel in the Austrian
campaigns; in 1799 he was named major-general by the archduke Charles;
and after obtaining the rank of lieutenant-general he was appointed by
the emperor governor of the two Galicias. Napoleon offered to restore to
him his principality on condition that he adhered to the confederation
of the Rhine, but as he refused, it was united to Wurttemberg. After
Napoleon's fall in 1814 he entered the French service, and in 1815 he
held the command of a regiment raised by himself, with which he took
part in the Spanish campaign of 1823. In 1827 he was created marshal and
peer of France. He died at Luneville on the 30th of May 1829.
III. ALEXANDER LEOPOLD FRANZ EMMERICH, prince of
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst (1794-1849), priest and reputed
miracle-worker, was born at Kupferzell, near Waldenburg, on the 17th of
August 1794. By his mother, the daughter of an Hungarian nobleman, he
was from infancy destined for the church; and she entrusted his early
education to the ex-Jesuit Riel. In 1804 he entered the "Theresianum" at
Vienna, in 1808 the academy at Bern, in 1810 the archiepiscopal seminary
at Vienna, and afterwards he studied at Tyrnau and Ellwangen. He was
ordained priest in 1815, and in the following year he went to Rome,
where he entered the society of the "Fathers of the Sacred Heart."
Subsequently, at Munich and Bamberg, he was blamed for Jesuit and
obscurantist tendencies, but obtained considerable reputation as a
preacher. His first co-called miraculous cure was effected, in
conjunction with a peasant, Martin Michel, on a princess of
Schwarzenberg who had been for some years paralytic. Immediately he
acquired such fame as a performer of miraculous cures that multitudes
from various countries flocked to partake of the beneficial influence of
his supposed supernatural gifts. Ultimately, on account of the
interference of the authorities with his operations, he went in 1821 to
Vienna and then to Hungary, where he became canon at Grosswardein and in
1844 titular bishop of Sardica. He died at Voslau near Vienna on the
17th of November 1849. He was the author of a number of ascetic and
controversial writings, which were collected and published in one
edition by S. Brunner in 1851.
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