Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz
Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz
Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz Franciscus (26 October 1768 in Silesia – 11 March 1837 in Potsdam) was a Prussian officer and cartographer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Steinmetz commanded a brigade in the Waterloo campaign. He was the uncle, and through his daughter Julie, father-in-law of the Field Marshal Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Bernhard von Poten 1893, pp. 6–10.
References[]
- Bernhard von Poten (1893), "Steinmetz, Karl Friedrich Franciscus von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 6–10
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