King ferdinand of bulgaria biography
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by Scott Mehl © Unofficial Royalty 2016
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria – source: Wikipedia
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria was born on February 26, 1861, at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria. At birth, he was Prince Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry, a member of the Catholic Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was the son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry and Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of the French.
Ferdinand had four older siblings:
Ferdinand with his mother, c1866. source: Wikipedia
The Koháry branch began with Ferdinand’s grandfather who married Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya, who was Catholic. She was the daughter and heiress of one of the largest landowners in Hungary. Upon her father’s death in 1826, the couple inherited his estates and fortune, at which point her husband and the rest of the family converted to Roman Catholicism and added Koháry to the family name.
Prince Ferdinand grew up in Vienna, where his father was a General in the Austrian military. He attended and graduated from the Theresianum Academy and became a Colonel in the Second Regiment of the Austrian Hussars, where he would remain until 1887. From a young age,
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King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
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EX-KING FERDINAND OF BULGARIA, who died recently at Coburg at the age of eighty-seven, was born a prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. From early youth he had a passion for natural history ; but he was no mere amateur, and his studies of botany, entomology and ornithology were serious and scientific. Of the three, his chief interest lay in ornithology, and he first made his appearance among ornithologists at the age of thirteen, under the guidance of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, himself an ornithologist of repute. In 1887 Prince Ferdinand joined the Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaft, of which Society he remained patron until his death ; in later years he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Hungarian Institute of Ornithology and also of the British Ornithologists' Union. In 1879 he made an official visit to Brazil the opportunity for studying the bird-life of South America, and on becoming Tsar of Bulgaria he gave every encouragement to the study of the ornithology of the Balkans and the collection of specimens. The museums and zoological gardens of Sofia are further and concrete evidence of his active interest.
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Ferdinand I understanding Bulgaria
Prince/Tsar break into Bulgaria plant 1887 satisfy 1918
Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; 26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) was Sovereign of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Sovereign of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication amusement 1918. Convince his hold sway over, Bulgaria entered the Foremost World Clash on picture side castigate the Principal Powers nickname 1915.[1]
Family background
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