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Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916. In the early part of his reign, his realms and territories were referred to as the Austrian Empire, but in 1867 they were reconstituted as the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866, he was…
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politics · Emperor of Austria from 1848 to 1916 · politician · monarch · Habsburg monarch from 1848 to 1916 · also Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Joseph I, Francis Joseph I, Franz Josef I, Austria
Born 18 August 1830 · Died 21 November 1916 · Q51056
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The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?
Il re d'Italia mi ha dichiarato la guerra. Un tradimento di cui la storia non conosce l'uguale, è stato commesso dall'Italia ai danni dei suoi alleati. (dal proclama imperiale del 23 maggio 1915)
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“„So lange er lebt.“ - Nach Fred Hennings („So lange er lebt“, fünf Bände, Verlag Herold, Wien 1968) war Franz Joseph I. der entscheidende innen- und außenpolitische Faktor in Österreich-Ungarn ab 1900. Der Ausspruch entsprach Hennings zufolge der weit verbreiteten Auffassung, zu Lebzeiten Franz Josephs werde sich in Mitteleuropa nichts Wesentliches ändern.”
“„Sie wissen nicht, wie ich diese Frau geliebt habe.“ - zu seinem Adjutanten Graf Paar über die verstorbene Elisabeth. Hanna Domandl: Kulturgeschichte Österreichs: von den Anfängen bis 1938, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Wien 1992, S. 390”
“The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?”
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Died 1916-11-21.
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“Forse mai come oggi emerge la verità di quel pensiero che Joseph Roth, nella Marcia di Radetzky, attribuisce a Francesco Giuseppe, il quale — egli scrive — non amava le guerre, «perché sapeva che si perdono». (Claudio Magris)”
“Formalista del giure, amministratore meticoloso che per contare e catalogare gli alberi non vedeva la foresta, mancava completamente d'immaginazione, era freddo e indifferente. (Luigi Salvatorelli)”
“Cosa volete pretendere da Francesco Giuseppe? Non è altro che un furiere. (Elisabetta di Baviera)”
“Fälschlich zugeschrieben:”
“Per il momento il meglio che noi possiamo sperare dall'Italia è che conservi la sua neutralità: per il momento. Ma non appena la nostra fortuna volti, essa non esiterà a passare dalla parte dei nostri nemici.”
“[Ai deputati lombardi che chiedevano libertà e indipendenza] Non poter esser questione di indipendenza, né di governo costituzionale in un paese conquistato colle armi, senza tener conto degli antichi diritti che il conquistatore aveva su di esso.”
“Meglio perdere una provincia e non rivedere più simili carneficine.”
“Io ho tutto ponderato, tutto vagliato. Con tranquilla coscienza batto la via che il dovere mi addita.”
“Der König von Italien hat mir den Krieg erklärt. Ein Treubruch, desgelichen die Weltgeschichte nicht kennt, ist von dem Königreich Italien an seinen beiden Verbündeten begangen worden.”
“Fin tanto che vivo, nessuno deve immischiarsi nel governo.”
“[Al Marchese di S. Marzano] Bisogna che i Lombardi dimentichino di essere italiani; le mie province d'Italia non debbono essere unite fra loro che dal vincolo dell'ubbidienza all'imperatore.”
“Avanti, o miei bravi, anch'io ho moglie e figlioli.”
“Kaiser von Österreich und Apostolischer König von Ungarn, König von Böhmen, Kroatien, Dalmatien und Galizien, Erzherzog von Österreich, Herzog von Steiermark, Kärnten, Krain usw.”
“Questo coronato assunto al trono nell'anno della riscossa dei popoli oppressi che ha soffocato nel sangue, muore nella serenità incosciente che nemmeno l'inevitabile smembramento del multiforme Impero ha potuto turbare.”
“Mai un'"impersonalità" più forte aveva lasciato il suo marchio su tutte le cose e le forme. (Karl Kraus)”
“Imperatore degli impiccati. (Giosuè Carducci)”
“Il solo amico che mi è rimasto al mondo. (Guglielmo II di Germania)”
“Il re d'Italia mi ha dichiarato la guerra. Un tradimento di cui la storia non conosce l'uguale, è stato commesso dall'Italia ai danni dei suoi alleati. (dal proclama imperiale del 23 maggio 1915)”
Franz Joseph's daughter, Marie Valerie, noted that her father expressed his greater confidence in the new heir presumptive, his grandnephew Archduke Charles
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“„Ich bin der letzte Monarch der alten Schule. Es ist meine Aufgabe, meine Völker vor ihren Politikern zu schützen!“ - 1910 zu Altpräsident Theodore Roosevelt. Beruf: Kaiser - Ausstellungskatalog der Münze Österreich, Wien 2006 (pdf-Datei), S. 4”
“„In Europa gibt es überhaupt nur einen interessanten Politiker, den Kaiser von Österreich.“ - Theodore Roosevelt im Jahr 1910”
Helped Hinko Hinković's defense in the fabricated trial against prominent Croats and Serbs members of the Serbo-Croatian Coalition (such as Frano Supilo and Svetozar Pribićević), and others, who were sentenced to more
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The Russian foreign minister, Alexander Izvolsky, offered Russian support, for the third time, for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, in exchange for Austrian support for the opening of the Bosp
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Awarded Royal Victorian Chain (1904).
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Franz Joseph's veto of Jus exclusivae of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla's election to the papacy was transmitted to the Papal conclave by Cardinal Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko
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“Diese neue Erfindung hat mich sehr interessiert und ich danke sehr für die Vorführung derselben." - 1900 in Wien bei der Austellung von Objekten der Pariser Weltausstellung in ein Poulsen-Telegraphon mit Drahtaufzeichnung (Mediathek.at)”
After the deaths of his cousin Rudolf (in 1889) and his father Karl Ludwig (in 1896)
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Franz Joseph met Katharina Schratt, a leading actress of the Vienna stage, and she became his friend and confidante
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Franz Joseph became the principal heir to the substantial fortune left by his predecessor and uncle, Ferdinand I, which consisted mainly of the Bohemian estates of the Duke of Reichstadt
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Two years after the unification of Germany, Franz Joseph entered into the League of Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund) with Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who was succeeded by Tsar Alexande
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By the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition which first reported finding it
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The Franz Joseph University (Hungarian: Ferenc József Tudományegyetem, Romanian: Universitatea Francisc Iosif) in the city of Cluj-Napoca (at that time a part of Austria-Hungary under the name of Kolozsvár)
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The government of Cisleithania negotiated a series of fundamental articles spelling out the relationship of the Bohemian Crown to the rest of the Habsburg Monarchy
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The Austro-Hungarian compromise and the introduction of the dual monarchy left the Czechs and their aristocracy without the recognition of separate Bohemian state rights for which they had hoped
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The death by suicide of his son Rudolf in 1889, and the assassinations of first his wife Elisabeth in 1898 and then his nephew and heir presumptive, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in 1914
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Were reconstituted as the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
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A visit of the monarch to Prague following defeat at the Battle of Königgrätz was a huge success, testified by the considerable numbers of new photographs taken
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Which established the Empire's constitution
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The negotiations failed because of unsolved constitutional problems
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And the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866
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Married his first cousin Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, with whom he had four children: Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf, and Marie Valerie
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On 18 February 1853, Franz Joseph survived an assassination attempt by Hungarian nationalist János Libényi
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Could not be replaced by statesmen of equal stature, and the emperor himself effectively took over as prime minister
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William (1849).
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Awarded Grand cross of the Order of Albert the Bear (1849).
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In Bohemia and especially in Prague), Franz Joseph was never crowned separately as king of Bohemia
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The political representatives of the Kingdom of Bohemia hoped and insisted that account should be taken of their historical state rights in the upcoming constitution
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Career landmark: King of Bohemia (1848–1916).
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Career landmark: Apostolic King of Hungary (1848–1916).
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Career landmark: Emperor of Austria (1848–1916).
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Born 1830-08-18.
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With only one brief period of interruption under the House of Wittelsbach, the Habsburgs had generally held the German crown
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