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Maria Theresa of Austria

1816 - 1867

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Maria Theresa of Austria (31 July 1816 – 8 August 1867) was the second wife of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, making her Queen of the Two Sicilies. She was the eldest daughter of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. Maria Theresa was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1834–1835). Her paternal grandparents were Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Theresa of Austria is the 186th most popular companion (up from 219th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Austria (up from 212th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Companion.

Maria Theresa of Austria is most famous for being the first female ruler of the Habsburg dominions.

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Among companions, Maria Theresa of Austria ranks 186 out of 784Before her are Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Margaret of Provence, Barbara Radziwiłł, Isabella of Angoulême, and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After her are Wahshi ibn Harb, Asiya, Stateira I, Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon, Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Castile, and Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland.

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Among people born in 1816, Maria Theresa of Austria ranks 7Before her are Charlotte Brontë, Werner von Siemens, Carl Zeiss, Arthur de Gobineau, Ferdinand II of Portugal, and Eugène Edine Pottier. After her are Abbas I of Egypt, Paul Reuter, Wazir Akbar Khan, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Carl Ludwig, and Franz Sacher. Among people deceased in 1867, Maria Theresa of Austria ranks 11Before her are Otto of Greece, Emperor Kōmei, Sakamoto Ryōma, Théodore Rousseau, Franz Bopp, and Jean-Victor Poncelet. After her are Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Victor Cousin, Princess Sophie of Saxony, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and James Ferguson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria ranks 174 out of 1,424Before her are Max Perutz (1914), Otto Weininger (1880), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Ernst Gombrich (1909), Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751), and Lothar Rendulic (1887). After her are Leopold V, Duke of Austria (1157), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Helmut Marko (1943), Karl Polanyi (1886), and Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573).

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