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Hermann, Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg

Austrian noble (1828-1887)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ3785231 ↗
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Hermann Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg (10 January 1828 – 15 November 1887) was an Austrian administrator. He was the Austrian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1881 to 1882.

He died in Vienna on 15 November 1887. He is buried at the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hermann, Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg” as austrian noble (1828-1887). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1828, 1887, 1881, 1882—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1828-01-10. The account is most persuasive where Hermann, Freiherr and Dahlen can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as austrian noble (1828-1887). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3785231. VIAF identifies the subject as 62120540. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1828, 1887, 1881 and 1882.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hermann, Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.