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2 unusual facts about Franz Joseph


Battle of Magnano

General-major Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen led a reserve division on the right, while Kray held back a second reserve division under General-major Franz Joseph, Marquis de Lusignan.

Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

Beginning in the winter semester of 1912, Franz Joseph studied at both the University of Strasbourg and University of Leipzig.


Andrey Sheptytsky

In 1899, following the death of Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovych, Sheptytsky was nominated by Emperor Franz Joseph to fill the vacant position of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and Pope Leo XIII concurred.

Fubuki Takane

Having spent her entire Takarazuka career in Snow Troupe, she was the second regular star partner of legend Mari Hanafusa and is most remembered for two roles: Franz Joseph (the first of Takarazuka to be in this role) and Viscount Valmont of Kamen no Romanesque (The Takarazuka's adoptation of Dangerous Liaisons).

Ludwig Thallóczy

Because of his mentors Gyula Andrássy and especially Benjamin Kallay he became inevitable counselor in all Balkan affairs even to the emperor Franz Joseph himself, to ministers and to the government of the empire.

Mari Hanafusa

Thus she was an Elisabeth who was haunted by two deaths (Maki Ichiro and Asato Shizuki), married to two Franz Josephs (Fubuki Takane and Yōka Wao), assassinated by two Luigi Luchenis (Yū Todoroki and Wataru Kozuki).

Military of Austria-Hungary

The Austrians were defeated after bitter fighting at Magenta and Solferino, the young Emperor Franz Joseph assuming personal command during the Battle of Solferino.

Naftali Herz Imber

He began writing poetry at the age of 10 and several years later received an award from Emperor Franz Joseph for a poem on the centenary of Bukovina's joining to the Austrian Empire.

Royal Wine Company

The winery was the exclusive wine supplier to Emperor Franz Joseph, who granted one of the early Herzogs the title of Baron.

William Henry McGarvey

Emperor Franz Joseph honoured him at a special ceremony for turning Austria from an importer to an exporter of oil.


see also

Adolph Aloys von Braun

1869 : Napoleon III invited the Emperor Franz Joseph I to the opening of the Suez Canal (planned by Austrian Engineer Alois Negrelli and built by French Ferdinand de Lesseps).

Franz Karl

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802–1878), father of the emperors Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico

Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Franz Joseph Xaver Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (27 November 1745, Waldenburg - 9 October 1819, Augsburg) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and bishop of Augsburg (the first after it ceased to be the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg), as well as vicar general of Neuwürttemberg.

Franz Unger

Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger (30 November 1800 in Gut Amthof near village Leutschach in Styria, Austria – 13 February 1870 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.

Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfürst

Hohenlohe was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda, in the Electorate of Hesse, on 26 February 1823, the son of its ruler, Prince Franz Joseph zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Princess Caroline Friederike Constanze zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg.