Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Esterhazy, Ferdinand Walsin, 1847-1923
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
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Description area
Dates of existence
1847-1923
History
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted of in 1894.