| Archduke Karl Salvator | |
| Full Name: | German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Phillipp Jacob Gennarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranierius Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero |
| Birth Date: | 1839 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Austrian Empire |
| Death Place: | Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
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| House: | Habsburg-Tuscany |
| Father: | Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany |
| Mother: | Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies |
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier; Florence, 30 April 1839 - Vienna, 18 January 1892), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.
He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army.[1] [2] He worked with Count George von Dormus as inventor of early self-loading small arms including the Salvator Dormus pistol and the Salvator-Dormus M1893 heavy machine gun.[3]
He married in Rome on 19 September 1861 his first cousin Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Naples, 14 April 1844 – Vienna, 18 February 1899), daughter of his maternal uncle Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.
Their children were: