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Emperor Franz Joseph reigned for 68 years, the longest of all the Habsburg rulers. He was a symbol of integration, and when he died the Habsburg Monarchy lost one of its most important pillars. Franz Joseph looms large in the historical consciousness of posterity.
Franz Joseph - Emperor, Austria-Hungary, Reformer: Although he had been raised to be a soldier and wore a uniform all his life, Franz Joseph was no more a strategist than he was a statesman. He made up for this deficiency by the careful study of documents, by an extraordinarily retentive memory, and by being a shrewd judge of character.
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.
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 were reconstituted as the dual monarchy of the Austro ...
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary (ruled 1848–1916) Born 18 August 1830 Vienna (Schönbrunn Palace) Died 21 November 1916 Vienna (Schönbrunn Palace) Motto: ‘Viribus Unitis – With united forces’. Franz Joseph ascended the throne of the Austrian Empire in 1848.
Jun 22, 2023 · June 22, 2023. • 14 min read. On November 30, 1916, with World War I still raging, the people of Vienna poured into the streets to pay their last respects to Franz Josef I, who had been their...
Franz Joseph declared Austria’s neutrality, thus snubbing the Russian tsar Nicholas I, his closest ally, who only a few years previously had provided vital assistance in suppressing the Hungarian revolution of 1848/49.
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