Prince Bogusław Fryderyk Radziwiłł (3 January 1809 – 2 January 1873) was a Polish nobleman and

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n military officer and politician. He lived in the

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, where he was a member of the

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(later, of the

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). He attained the rank of general within the Prussian Army.

Early life

Radziwiłł was born in

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on 3 January 1809. He was a younger son of Prince

Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the f ...

, the ''Duke-Governor'' (, ) of the

Grand Duchy of Poznań The Grand Duchy of Posen (; ) was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from territories annexed by Prussia after the Partitions of Poland, and formally established following the Congress of Vienna in 1815. On 9 February 1849, the Prussian a ...

, an autonomous province of the

, and

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(1770–1836). Among his surviving siblings were Prince

Wilhelm Radziwiłł Prince Fryderyk Wilhelm Paweł Mikolaj Radziwiłł (19 March 1797 – 5 August 1870) was a Polish nobleman and Prussian general who was the founding president of the Berlin Numismatic Society. Early life Radziwiłł was born on 19 March 179 ...

(who married Countess Mathilde von

Clary und Aldringen The House of Clary und Aldringen, also known as Clary-Aldringen, is one of the most prominent Austro-Hungarian princely families. Originally from Friuli, Northern Italy, one branch of the family moved to the County of Tyrol around 1500 and to the ...

); Prince Ferdynand Fryderyk Radziwiłł (who died unmarried); Princess

Eliza Fryderyka Radziwiłł ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and ...

(the desired bride of Prince William of Prussia, who later became

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, but they were not allowed to marry); Prince Władysław Radziwiłł (who died unmarried); and Princess Wanda Augusta Wilhelmina Radziwiłł (who married their first cousin, Prince Adam

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). His paternal grandparents were Prince

Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł Prince Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł (; 1744–1831) was a Polish nobleman, politician, diplomat and member of the Polish–Lithuanian Radziwiłł family. He was an '' ordynat'' of Kleck, Olyka and Niasvizh, Great Sword-bearer of Lithuania f ...

and Helena Przeździecka. His aunt, Princess Angelika Radziwiłł, was the wife of Prince

Konstanty Adam Czartoryski Prince Konstanty Adam Czartoryski (28 October 1777 – 24 April 1866) was a Polish szlachcic, nobleman who became colonel in 1809 in the Duchy of Warsaw and brigadier general in 1815 in Congress Poland. He commanded the 2nd battalion of grena ...

. Through his brother, Prince

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, he was uncle to Prince

Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł Prince Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł (; 31 March 183316 December 1904) was a member of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility and a General of the Artillery in the Prussian Army. He was the nephew of Princess Elisa Radziwiłł, the first love of their kin ...

. His maternal grandparents were

Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt Princess and Margravine Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (; 22 April 1738 – 10 February 1820) was a Prussian princess by marriage to her uncle Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia. She was a daughter of Margrave Frederick Will ...

and

Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (; 23 May 1730 – 2 May 1813) was a Prussian prince and general, as well as ''Herrenmeister'' ("Master of the Knights") of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John. He belonged to the House o ...

(a younger brother of the Prussian King

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). Through his mother, he was the great-grandson of King

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, great-great-grandson of King

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, cousin of

and Czar

Alexander II of Russia Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Poland and Grand Du ...

Career

He was a member of the

(later, of the

). He attained the rank of general within the Prussian Army.

Personal life

In 1832, he married Countess Leontyna Gabriela Clary et Aldringen, a daughter of

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and Marie "Aloisie" Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin (the daughter of Johann Rudolf Chotek von Chotkov und Vojnín). Together, they were the parents of: * Prince Ferdynand Fryderyk Radziwiłł (1834–1926), who married Pelagia Sapieha, a daughter of Leon Ludwig

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. * Prince Władysław Radziwiłł (1836–1922) * Princess Fryderyka Radziwiłł (1837–1843), who died young. * Prince Fryderyk Wilhelm Janush Edmund Karol Radziwiłł (1839–1907), who married Princess Teresa Lubomirska, a daughter of Prince Yuri Lubomirski and Countess Cecilia Zamoyska. * Princess Pauline Radziwiłł (1841–1894) * Prince Edmund Radziwiłł (1842–1905) * Prince Adam Radziwiłł (1844–1907) * Princess Felicia Radziwiłł (1849–1930), who married Carlos, 5th Prince of Clary-Aldringen, elder brother of Prince Siegfried von Clary-Aldringen and Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen. * Princess Mathilde Radziwiłł (1850–1931) Radziwiłł died in Berlin on 2 January 1873.

Ancestry

References

1809 births 1873 deaths Lieutenant generals of Prussia Boguslaw Fryderyk Nobility from Königsberg Members of the Prussian House of Lords Members of the Sejm (Provinziallandtag) of Posen German people of Polish descent Polish people of German descent Politicians from Königsberg {{Poland-politician-stub