| Arthur von Schönborn-Wiesentheid | |
| Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid | |
| Birth Name: | Artur Franz Maximilian von Schönborn-Wiesentheid |
| Birth Place: | Würzburg |
| Death Place: | Wiesentheid, Lower Franconia, Bavaria |
| Father: | Klemens von Schönborn-Wiesentheid |
| Mother: | Irene Batthyány de Német-Ujvár |
| House: | Schönborn-Wiesentheid |
| Spouse: | Princess Stephanie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst |
| Issue: | Maria von Schönborn-Wiesentheid Johanna von Schönborn-Wiesentheid Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid |
Arthur Franz Maximilian, 4th Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (30 January 1846 – 29 September 1915) was an Austrian nobleman.
Schönborn-Wiesentheid was born on 30 January 1846 in into the Hochadel (high nobility). He was the son of Klemens, 3rd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid and Irene, Countess Batthyány de Német-Ujvár. Among his siblings were Elma von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (wife of diplomat Karl von und zu Franckenstein).
His paternal grandfather, Franz, 1st Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, was succeeded as Count by Arthur's uncle, Hugo, 2nd Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid in 1840. Upon his death in 1865, the title passed to Arthur's father, Klemens.[1]
The County of Schönborn-Wiesentheid was in Lower Franconia, the northwestern Region of modern Bavaria, and comprised various isolated districts spanning from the Regnitz River to the Main River east of Würzburg. Schönborn-Wiesentheid, a partition of Schönborn, inherited the other line of Schönborn-Heusenstamm in 1801 before it was mediatised to Bavaria in 1806.[1]
Upon the death of his father in 1877, he became the titular Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid.[2]
He married Princess Stephanie Marie Antonie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1851–1882), the second daughter of Princess Marie von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, the longtime Minister President of Prussia who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1894 to 1900 under Emperor Wilhelm II.[3] Together, they were the parents of:
Princess Stephanie died in Munich on 18 March 1882. The Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid died on 29 September 1915 in Wiesentheid.[4] His portrait was painted by Philip de László.[5]