Members
The House of Schwarzenberg produced many military commanders, politicians, church dignitaries (including an Archbishop of Prague), innovators and patrons of the arts. They were related to a number of European aristocratic families, notably to the Lobkowicz (Czech: Lobkovicové) family. By name, notable members are:
- Johann of Schwarzenberg (1463–1528), Bamberg judge, and friend of Martin Luther
- Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg (1583–1641), advisor of George William, Elector of Brandenburg
- Georg Ludwig, Count von Schwarzenberg (1586–1646), Austrian statesman during the Thirty Years War
- Prince Karl Philipp I of Schwarzenberg (1771–1820), Austrian general and field marshal
- Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800–1852), Austrian statesman
- Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg (1809–1885), Archbishop of Salzburg and Prague
- Karel Schwarzenberg (1937- ), Czech politician, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
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“For let our finger ache, and it endues
Our other healthful members even to a sense
Of pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)