Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Kuhn i te 15 o Hurae 1817 i Proßnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire (i Prostějov inaianei i te Czech Republic), te tama a Major Franz von Kuhn (1772-1842), i whakahonoretia i te 1823, me te tamahine a te kaiahuwhenua a Johanna Schwab (1787-1856). I puta ia me te rereketanga mai i te Theresian Military Academy i Wiener Neustadt ka uru ki te mahi hoia i te 1837. I mahi ia i runga i te kaimahi whānui quartermaster rite te nui i roto i nga pakanga o 1848 me 1849 i roto i Itari me
Ko Hungary. I muri mai, ko Kuhn te rangatira o te roopu nui o te ope taua 11 i Hungary mo etahi tau. I te tau 1852 i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te mana o Baronial ka marena ki a Rosa von Thuren. I whakatairangahia ia ki te Oberstleutnant i te tau 1853. I te tau 1856, ka noho a Kuhn hei kaiwhakaako mo te rautaki hōia i te whare wānanga hōia i Vienna. I uru ia ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te Motuhake o Itari i te tau 1859, hei rangatira mo nga kaimahi whanui ki a Field Marshal Ferenc Gyulay, I te 29 o Oketopa 1863, i whakatairangahia ia ki te taumata o te rangatira nui.