BENEDEX, LUDWIG VON, an Austrian gen., h. in 1804 at Odenburg„ in thing:Irv, where his father was a physician of repute. He received his military education at the Netistildt academy, and at its close entered the army :is ensign in 182. In 1843. he was promoted to the rank of senior lieut., and on the occasion of the insurrection in Galicia in 1846. had several opportunities of distinguishing himself. In Aug.. 1847, as commandant of count Gyulai s infantry regiment. he moved to Italy, where a still more brilliant career awaited him. On the occasion of the retreat from fk1an, and especially after Curtalone, where he had led on the assault with Brent skill and gallantry, his mune was mentioned in the army reports by marshal Radetsky in the highest terms; and, con sequently. he received the cross of the order of Maria Theresa. 11e distin guished Himself at the taking of .Mortara, and in the battle of Novara. In April, 1549,
he was made maj gen. and brigadier of the first body of reserve of the army of Big Danube, He commanded the arant-garcle at Raab and Oszony, and received ;t slight wound in the affair at 1.1j-Szegedin ; which did not, however, prevent him from taking a most active part in the subsequent engagements of Szorny and Ozs Ivany, where he was Ivounded in the foot. At the close of the Hungarian campaign, he was ordered again, high in command, to Italy. In the Italian campaign of 1839. B. commanded the 8t11 corps of the Austrians. At Scilferino, B. drove back the Piedmontese with great slaughter, and was the last to leave the field. Ile was governor of ungary in 1800, anirsorm afterwards got the command of the Austrian army in that country. Ile cont• manded the Austrians in the war with Prussia in 1866, but shortly after the defeat at Sadowa he was superseded.