Hieronymus Karl Graf von Colloredo-Mansfeld
Hieronymus von Colloredo -Man ( n ) sarray ( born March 30, 1775 in Wetzlar, † July 23, 1822 in Vienna ) was an Austrian general in the Napoleonic Wars.
Family
He was the son of Prince Franz de Paula Gundaker von Colloredo -Man ( n ) sarray, who served 1767-70 as ambassador to Spain, from 1788 to 1806 as Imperial Vice Chancellor.
Life
Colloredo joined in 1792 as a lieutenant in the Austrian army, attended the train of General Clerfait in the Champagne at, made as a lieutenant commander in the campaigns of 1793 and 1794 in Flanders and in 1794 captain. In 1796 he made under Wurmser the Italian campaign with, fought as a colonel in the battle of Hohenlinden, distinguished himself as a Major General under the Archduke Charles with his brigade at Caldiero, and dwelt also the campaign of 1809 in Italy, did later on as Field Marshal Lieutenant Raab forth and covered the retreat after Komárom. On September 4, 1813 Count Colloredo was given command of the first corps of the Austrian main army. In this capacity he participated in the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813.
Reception
For him was erected in 1825 in the North Bohemian Arbesau in memory of his services at the Battle of Kulm a monument.
By the imperial resolution of Franz Joseph I of February 28, 1863 Jerome was " the most famous, to the everlasting emulation worthy warlords and generals of Austria" Colloredo -Mansfeld in the list of added, in whose honor and remembrance also a life-size statue in the Feldherrenhalle the then newly constructed kk Hofwaffenmuseums (now the Military History Museum Vienna) was built. The statue was created in 1868 by the Czech sculptor Emanuel Max Ritter von Wachstein ( 1810-1901 ) in Carrara marble, it was dedicated by Joseph Franz Hieronymus von Colloredo - Mansfeld ( 1813-1895 ).
In Leipzig there were 1903 to 1950 a Colloredostraße (now Ernst Toller Road ).
The 2008 vintage of Theresa Military Academy, the training center for officers of the Austrian army in Wiener Neustadt, was named after Hieronymus von Colloredo -Mansfeld.