Benedek

Benedek, Ludwig von, Austrian soldier, was born in 1804 at Oedenburg, Hungary. After some service during the Galician insurrection of 1846, he assumed the command of a regiment against the Italians in 1848 and against the Hungarian patriots in 1849. In the Italian campaign, 1859, he signalised himself at Solferino. After being governor of Hungary, and commander-in-chief in Venice, he commanded the Austrian army in the war of 1866 with Prussia. The disaster of Sadowa led to his being superseded and court-martialled. Thereafter he retired to Graz, where he died in 1881.