Franz Heinrich Hieronymus Valentin von Lützow

Franz Heinrich Hieronymus Valentin Graf von Lützow (21 Mar 1849 Hamburg – 13 Jan 1916 Territet, Vaud, Switzerland) was an Austrian author.

Biography

He was educated at Vienna and Innsbruck and followed a diplomatic career. He was appointed chamberlain of the emperor of Austria from 1881. He was Ilchester lecturer at Oxford (1904), and in 1912 lectured at American universities.

Works

• History of Bohemian Literature (1899)
• Prague, in “Mediæval Town” series (1901)
• Historians of Bohemia (1905)
• Life and Times of Master John Hus (1909)
• The Hussite Wars (1914)

Family

He was the son of Franz Joseph Johann Nepomuk Gottfried von Lützow and Henriette Seymour. He married Anna Gustava von Bornemann (6 Jan 1853 Paris – 18 Apr 1932 London) on 18 Jan 1881 in London.

Notes

References

• "Lützow genealogy". patricus.info. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Lützow, Franz Heinrich Valentin, Count". Encyclopedia Americana.