Bianchi

Østrigsk general.

• Tolentino, 1815

Baron Frederick Bianchi duke of Casalanza, was born in Vienna in 1768; since his childhood, he showed a special disposition towards military life. He was only 11 when his mother died and he was entrusted to the care of a bourgeois from Vienna; this good-natured, thoughtful man followed the advice of an old officer and consented to invest Frederick's mother's modest heritage and pay for his board and tuition at the Military Engineer Corps Academy in Vienna. Frederick's father, Giacomo Bianchi, had been called to teach physics and chemistry at Paris University. He died in Paris around 1785.+++