Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1835)

Archduchess Maria Anna
Archduchess Maria Anna
	Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1837
Born	27 October 1835; Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	5 February 1840 (aged 4); Vienna, Austrian Empire
Burial	Imperial Crypt, Vienna
Father	Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Mother	Princess Sophie of Bavaria

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (27 October 1835 – 5 February 1840) was by birth an Archduchess of Austria and a member of the House of Habsburg. She was the fourth child and only daughter to Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. Maria Anna died in childhood due to epilepsy.

Life

Named in honor of her paternal aunt Maria Anna of Savoy,^[1] Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was born on 27 October 1835, in Vienna, Austria. Her father was Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and her mother was Princess Sophie of Bavaria. She was baptized with the names of Maria Anna Karolina Annunziata Johanna Josepha Gabriela Theresa Katharina Margaretha Philomena,^[2] although in the family she was called Ännchen.

At birth, she seemed to be robust, however, she soon started to show signs of epilepsy,^[a] and had died at the early age of 4 after a violent seizure.^[4] She was buried in the Ferdinand Vault at the Imperial Crypt, in Vienna.^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Maria Anna of Austria

Notes

^ Epilepsy was run among the descendants of Emperor Leopold II.^[3]

References

^ "Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria". royal.myorigins.org. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
^ ^a ^b Kais. kön. priv. Bothe von und für Tirol und Vorarlberg, No 50, 22 June 1840, Innsbruck, p. 197.
^ Hans Bankl: Die kranken Habsburger: Befunde und Befindlichkeiten einer Herrscherdynastie. Band 15360 von Goldmanns Taschenbücher, ed. Goldmann TB 2005, ISBN 978-344215360-2
^ Franz Carl Weidmann: Oesterreichischer Erinnerungs-Kalender. Historisch-chronistischer Ueberblick denkwürdiger, den österreichischen Kaiserstaat betreffender Ereignisse vom 1. Jänner 1840 bis 31. December 1845. Vienna, January 1846. In: Austria: österreichischer Universal-Kalender. ed. Klang 1847, vol. XLIII ff.
^ ^a ^b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Franz Karl Joseph" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 257 – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Sophie (geb. 27. Jänner 1805)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 149 – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Franz I." . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 208 – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Maria Theresia von Neapel" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 81 – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 94.
^ ^a ^b "Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine Königin von Bayern". Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte [House of Bavarian History] (in German). Bavarian Ministry of State for Wissenschaft and Kunst. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

Bibliography

Egon Caesar Conte Corti: Vom Kind zum Kaiser. Die Jugend Kaiser Franz Josefs und seiner Brüder. Band 1 von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Pustet, 1950.
Cölestin Wolfsgruber: Die Kaisergruft bei den Kapuzinern in Wien. ed. Alfred Hölder, 1887, N°. 87, p. 307 ff. online
Constantin von Wurzbach: Habsburg, Franz Karl Joseph in: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, vol. 6. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 357 online