Nicolaas II Esterházy
Nicolaas II Esterházy of Galántha (Vienna, 12 September 1765 - Como 25 November 1833), Hungarian Esterházy Miklós, German Nikolaus Esterhazy, Prince Esterházy, was a Hungarian-Austrian military. He was a grandson of Nicolaas I Joseph Esterházy.
He began his career as a military, but exchanged this career after he had brought it to the artillery commander for diplomacy. In Vienna he gathered a collection of paintings and engravings that later formed the basis for the National Museum in Budapest. At his summer palace in Eisenstadt, he established a monument to Joseph Haydn, who had been employed by his grandfather. In 1807 he gave Ludwig van Beethoven the mission to miss in C-dur. In art and decoration of his real estate, he spent so much that his gender would have two generations of financial difficulties. His rule was: What the emperor can, I can!
When in 1797 the French took part in Austria, Nicolaas brought at his expense a regiment and stretched as a marshmallow on the Austrian side. Napoleon Bonaparte offered him the Hungarian throne in 1809, hoping to get him on his side. However, Esterházy thanked for the honor and continued to be the Habsburg interests by combining again with a self-financed regiment against the French emperor. He died on November 25, 1833. His son Paul III Anton Esterházy was a diplomat.
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