Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier
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Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (10 November 1800 – 16 April 1872) was an Austrian
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire...

 statesman.

Born in Gorizia
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, he studied law at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
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 and at first entered into civil service. In 1836 he retired to cultivate the manor estate of his uncle at Weikersdorf Castle in Baden
Baden bei Wien
-Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks...

, where he excelled in agronomic
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 studies. In the course of the Revolutions of March 1848
Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas
From March 1848 through July 1849, the Habsburg Austrian Empire was threatened by revolutionary movements. Much of the revolutionary activity was of a nationalist character: the empire, ruled from Vienna, included Austrian Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians,...

 he became a liberal
Liberalism
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 member of the Reichstag assembly and trade minister in the cabinet of Franz von Pillersdorf
Baron Franz von Pillersdorf
Baron Franz von Pillersdorf was an Austrian statesman.Born in Brno the son of a judge, Pillersdorf after a legal education in Vienna in 1805 started his public service career in Galicia. In 1807, he returned to Vienna as assistant to the court councilor Baron von Baldacci. This put him in the...

, and, after Pillersdorf's demission in July, acting minister-president and minister of the interior.

Doblhoff-Dier himself resigned from all offices in the violent Vienna Uprising
Vienna Uprising
The Vienna Uprising or October Revolution of October 1848 was the last uprising in the Austrian Revolution of 1848....

 of October 1848. In the next year he was appointed ambassador at The Hague
The Hague
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, a post he held until 1858. In 1861 he became a member of the newly established Reichsrat
Reichsrat (Austria)
The Imperial Council of Austria from 1867 to 1918 was the parliament of the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of the Herrenhaus and the Abgeordnetenhaus...

, from 1867 onwards of the Herrenhaus
Herrenhaus
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