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Like many junior members of royal families, Archduke Joseph Karl entered the military. He became a
Major General in the
Austrian Army in 1860. During the
Austro-Prussian War he commanded a Brigade in the North Army and had three horses shot under him at
Königgrätz.[1] In 1867, he became
Palatine of Hungary after the death of his childless half-brother
Stephen, though the post by that time was symbolic only.
The archduke had an interest in the
Romani language and occasionally wrote on this topic to Albert Thomas Sinclair, an American lawyer who shared this interest. A biography of Sinclair notes that the archduke sent a copy of his work, "a large octavo volume handsomely bound. It is a most important and valuable philological work comparing the
gypsy words with
Sanskrit,
Hindustani Persian, etc".[2]
As early as the late 1880s, Archduke Joseph advocated turning the poor fishing village of
Crikvenica into a new health resort. In 1895 the Grand Hotel named after the archduke was opened there.[3]
^Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Nassau (1866), "Herzogliche Orden" p.
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^Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1859), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p.
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Generations are numbered by male-line descent from the first archdukes. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished in 1919.