Steinmetz, Carl Friedrich von, Prussian general, born at Eisenach; distinguished himself in the war of 1813-1814, and inflicted crushing defeats on the Austrians in 1866; fell below his reputation in the Franco-German War, and was deprived of his command after the battle of Gravelotte, but was elected Governor-General of Posen and Silesia (1796‒1877).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stein, Charlotte von * Steinthal, Heymann