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TEGETTHOFF, WILHELM VON, BARON (1827-1871)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 505 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TEGETTHOFF, WILHELM VON, BARON (1827-1871) , Austrian admiral, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Karl von Tegetthoff, was born at Marburg, in Styria, on the 23rd of December 1827. After passing through the naval college at Venice, he first served afloat in 1845, and in 1848 was made an
ensign
 . In 1849 he was present at the blockade of Venice, resulting in its surrender. In 1852 he was promoted to be a lieutenant, and during the Crimean war was employed on a sort of police
duty at the Sulina mouth of the Danube, which brought him to the favourable notice of the Archduke
Maximilian
 , who in 18J4 had been appointed head of the navy with the style of rear-admiral. After some time in a semi-official scientific expedition in Egypt, Arabia, and the Red Sea down to the island of Socotra, Tegetthoff was promoted to the rank of captain of the third class, and in 1858 he commanded the corvette " Erzherzog Friedrich " on the coast of Morocco, then in a very disturbed state. The corvette returned to Trieste on the imminence of the war with France; but during 1859 the French
fleet
  commanded the Adriatic in vastly superior force, against which the Austrians were powerless. After the peace Tegetthoff made a voyage to Brazil as aide-de-camp to
Maximilian
 , and in 186o-63 commanded a large frigate in the Levant during the disturbances in Syria, and on the coast of Greece or in the Piraeus at the time of the Greek revolution. Towards the end of 1863 he was sent to the North Sea as commodore in command of two frigates, with which, together with three small Prussian gunboats, he fought an action with the Danish
squadron
 , and though without any decisive success, succeeded in raising the blockade of the mouths of the Elbe and Weser. The Austrian emperor answered. Tegetthoff's telegraphic despatch by another promoting him to be rear-admiral, and conferring on him the Order of the Iron Crown. In 1865 he commanded a small
squadron
  in the Mediterranean, and in the war of r866 was placed in command of the whole effective force of the Austrian navy. With all his efforts, however, this was markedly inferior to the Italian force opposed to it, and when the two fleets met off Lissa on the loth of July, the decisive victory of the Austrians was entirely due to the personal superiority of Tegetthoff and the officers whom he in
great
  measure had trained. In numbers, in ships, and in armament the Italians were much the more powerful, but they had neither a capable
chief
  nor efficient officers. Tegetthoff was immediately promote,4i, by telegraph, to the rank of vice-admiral, and among the many decorations conferred on him was one from his former
commander
 , the unfortunate Maximilian, at this time emperor of
Mexico
 , whose
body
  was in the following year brought home by Tegetthoff. In March 1868 he was appointed head of the naval section of the War Office and
commander
 -inchief of the navy, which offices he held till his death at Vienna, after a very short illness, on the 7th of April 187rin the words of the semi-official notice" zu fruh fur Osterreich."
(J. K. L.)


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