Friedrich Zobel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Zobel

Austrian fieldmarshal

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1799

Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1869

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Thomas Friedrich Zobel von Giebelstadt und Darstadt (1799 – 12 July 1869) was an Austrian military officer. Zobel was born into a family of the lesser Austrian nobility.
He studied in the military academy of Vienna and distinguished himself in the riots in Lombardy-Venetia of 1848.
On 30 April 1849 he was appointed Major General, becoming the governor of the fortress of Verona, where there was one of the largest Austrian garrisons in northern Italy.
On 12 May 1853 he was named a leutnant-feldmarschall in the Austrian army.
He defended against the invasion of Lombardy-Venetia by a combined force from the Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont, and France, and fought in the battle of Palestro (1859, during the Italian Second War of Independence) as the Austrian commander, although the battle was lost.
He retired from the military in 1864 and died in 1869.



Alternative names	Joseph Kriehuber
Description	Austrian painter and lithographer
Date of birth/death	14 December 1800	30 May 1876
Location of birth/death	Vienna	Vienna
Work location	Austria
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