Maria Elisabeth of Austria | |||||
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![]() Portrait by Martin van Meytens, 18th-century | |||||
Born | Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire | 13 August 1743||||
Died | 22 September 1808 Linzer Palace, Linz, Austrian Empire | (aged 65)||||
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House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
Father | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor | ||||
Mother | Maria Theresa | ||||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Maria Elisabeth of Austria (German: Maria Elisabeth Josefa Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1743 – 22 September 1808) was an archduchess of Austria and princess of Tuscany, Bohemia, and Hungary as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She was an abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Innsbruck from 1780 until 1806.