page_title: Archduke John of Austria
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Archduke John of Austria / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Ritratto di Giovanni arciduca d'Austria
context_page_description: Archduke John of Austria, a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and imperial regent of the short-lived German Empire during the Revolutions of 1848.
context_section_description: John was born in Florence, the thirteenth child of the Habsburg Archduke Leopold of Tuscany and Maria Louisa of Spain. He was baptized with the name of John Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian, after the patron saint of the Tuscan capital. In 1790, Leopold succeeded his brother Joseph II as the Holy Roman Emperor and his family moved from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to the Imperial court in Vienna. Only two years later, John's elder brother Francis II ascended the Imperial throne.
  John's native language was Italian, he learned to speak French and German fluently. Educated by the Swiss historian Johannes von Müller, he developed wide-ranging skills and interests, especially in the history and geography of the Alpine countries.
caption: Archduke John of Austria, c. 1799
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