Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
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Ran the Holy Roman Empire for just two years (1790–92) but earned historian praise for being genuinely shrewd about power. Abolished capital punishment and torture in Tuscany—a radical move that made him the first European ruler to ditch the death penalty entirely.
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Leopold II was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor, as well as King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Queen Maria Carolina, Duchess Maria Amalia of Parma, and Emperor Joseph II. Leopold was a moderate proponent of enlightened absolutism like his brother Joseph II. He granted the Academy of Georgofili his protection. Unusually for his time, he opposed the death penalty and torture and abolished it…
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