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Bidding Information
Lot #
17655
Auction End Date
4/24/2007 10:18:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Prayer in honor of Kaiser Ferdinand
Title (Hebrew)
תפלה לקייזר אוסטריא
Author
[Community - Liturgy - Ms.]
City
[Austria]
Publication Date
c. 1850
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
[1] p., 228:178 mm., creased and split on folds, ink on paper, neat block letters with points.
Detailed
Description
Homile in honor of Kaiser Ferdinand of Austria (1793-1875). In 1835 the Imperial Crown of Austria passed to the sadly retarded Ferdinand. On his deathbed the Emperor Franz gave his son the advise: "Reign and don't change anything." Ferdinand was sadly retarded with an over-large head with a flat skull and water on the brain. His face was further disfigured by the famous drooping Habsburg lip and huge nose. The government of the Donau monarchies remained in the hands of Metternich, while Ferdinand strolled along the corridors in a fieldmarshal's uniform with an umbrella under his arm. After a meeting with the Tsar and his family in 1835, the Tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna, wrote in her diary that she had been told about Ferdinand's thickset figure, his big head and expressionless face, but that the truth was even worse. Sophie of Bavaria once remarked that Austria had "an oaf representing the Crown", while Ferdinand himself summarised being Emperor as: "I am Emperor, I want noodles, so I get them." Ferdinand once said: "It is easy to govern, but what is difficult is to sign one's name." His favourite amusement was to wedge himself in a wastepaper basket and roll over and over like a ball.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Austria
Subject
Liturgy:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Other:
Liturgy
Kind of Judaica
