was a German physician and writer, born in the town Nikolsburg, today Mikulov in Moravia.
In 1866 the Austro-Prussian War broke out, and during the critical weeks which followed the attempt of Napoleon to intervene between Prussia and Austria, he accompanied the Prussian headquarters in the advance on Vienna, and during a visit to Vienna he helped to arrange the preliminaries of the armistice signed at Nikolsburg.
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In 1249 the Moravian margrave Přemysl Ottokar II granted it together with the Lordship of Mikulov to the Austrian noble Henry I of Liechtenstein.