Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria


Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.

Early life and career

He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army. He worked with Count George von Dormus as inventor of early self-loading small arms including the Salvator Dormus pistol and the Salvator-Dormus M1893 heavy machine gun.

Family and children

He married in Rome on 19 September 1861 his first cousin Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of his maternal uncle Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.
Their children were: