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Franz Joseph: the ageing emperor. Towards the end of the century the term ‘Fortwursteln’ (‘muddling through’) was coined to describe Emperor Franz Joseph’s policies. The political decision-makers saw no possibility of finding solutions for the pressing problems that beset the Monarchy on all sides. A major critic of the ossification ...
Franz Joseph, 1908. Francis Joseph, German Franz Josef, (born Aug. 18, 1830, Schloss Schönbrunn, near Vienna—died Nov. 21, 1916, Schloss Schönbrunn), Emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916). He became emperor during the Revolutions of 1848 after the abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand I.
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Franz Joseph, the supreme bureaucrat. A young lad becomes emperor and is intent on remaining so for a long time – Franz Joseph’s extensive reign has caused posterity to regard him as the very epitome of the Habsburg Monarchy. However, this period was far from being a pure idyll. On 2 December 1848, at a mere eighteen years of age, Franz ...
Franz Joseph regarded Franz Ferdinand’s action as a violation of his designated successor’s duty to continue the ruling dynasty. From 1893 the governments of the Austrian half of the empire became increasingly unstable, foundering successively on their attempts to solve urgent social problems and coming under sustained pressure from ...
Governments came and went, overseen by Franz Joseph as their constant patron and guardian. Personally, Franz Joseph was a convinced adherent of an outdated aristocratic code of honour. The Emperor and the old Austrian nobility were imprisoned in the rites of the past. The court of Vienna was famous for its elegance and social exclusiveness but ...
Franz Joseph has gone down in history as the prototypical ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy, as the benignly smiling ‘grandfather of the empire’. However, there are other views which see him as a soulless bureaucrat who was aware he was leading the empire into the abyss. If one has the whole world against one, without a single friend, there is ...
Franz Joseph. Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1848 to 1916) Thanks to his long reign of 68 years, Franz Joseph was a determining figure of the Habsburg Empire in the last decades of its existence. In 1914, he signed the declaration of war on Serbia that triggered the First World War – a war that he would not live to see the end of.
