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57 unusual facts about Graz


Adolf Smekal

Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).

Albert Anton von Muchar

Albert Anton von Muchar was a historian, born in Lienz, Tyrol, 22 November, around 1781; died in Graz, Styria, 6 June 1849.

From 1823 to 1825 he was supplementary professor of Biblical science, becoming afterwards professor of aesthetics and classical philology at the University of Graz.

Alfred Walter

He was born in Southern Bohemia to Austrian parents, and studied at the University of Graz.

Andrzej Kusionowicz Grodyński

After completing his schooling he attended universities in Kraków, Graz and Vienna, then moved to Cieszyn Silesia due to his keen interest in Polish affairs centred in that region.

Anton Rintelen

Rintelen was the son of a well-known lawyer and studied law at University of Graz from 1894 to 1898, at which pointed he began lecturing in civil law at the university.

Anton Wassmuth

Anton Wassmuth (5 May 1844, Stift Tepl near Marienbad - 22 April 1927, Graz) was an Austrian physicist.

Austrian Cricket Association

Currently there are clubs from four of Austria's 9 federal provinces: Whilst the majority of clubs are based in Vienna, there are also clubs in Graz, Salzburg, Steyr and Velden.

Austrian Student Aid Foundation


Regional Director Vienna
Alexander Walter
Regional Director Graz & Klagenfurt
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Bogumil Vošnjak

He attended the elementary school in Celje and later in Graz, where he moved with his father.

Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw

Charles of Austria, nicknamed the Posthumous, (Graz, August 7, 1590 – Madrid, December 28, 1624) was Bishop of Wrocław and grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights.

Count Kasimir Felix Badeni

Obstructionism by German nationalists slowed or stopped parliamentary business in the Reichsrat and riots erupted in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, and the alpine provinces.

Domenico dell'Allio

He is most known for his work in the Landhaus (Seat of Regional Government) of Graz (1557–1565).

Fairline

It ceased operations in June 2004 when its parent company Fairline Aviation was declared bankrupt on June 9, 2004 by a court in Graz.

Franc Hočevar

Franz Josef Hočevar, in Slovenian, Franc Jože Hočevar, (born in Metlika, Slovenia, October 10, 1853, died Graz, Austria June 19, 1919) was an Austrian–Slovenian mathematician and author of mathematical books.

Franz Ferenczy

He continued to study further in Vienna from 1855-1858 before making his professional opera debut in 1859 under the name Franz Ferenczy as Manrico in Verdi's Il trovatore at the opera house in Graz.

Fritz Zweigelt

He was educated there, and in 1911 received a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Graz.

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Together Antonio and Giuseppe designed theater decorations and for festivities in Vienna, also Linz, Graz, and Prague (1723 "Costanza e Fortezza" at Hradčany castle).

Graz Reininghaus

The grounds of the former Reininghaus brewery, covering 50 hectares, represent the largest undeveloped area near the center of Graz, Austria’s second largest city.

Graz-Karlau Prison

Because the castle's name was similar to the nearby "Tobel hunting-lodge" situated in Haselsdorf-Tobelbad, it was renamed as "Karlau", after the archduke.

Built between 1584 and 1590 in late Renaissance style to designs by Antonio Tade and Antonio Marmoro, it was used as a summer hunting residence for Archduke Karl II of Austria.

Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon

Later, between 1961 and 1964, the book was republished in Graz, Austria.

Günther Porod

Günther Porod (born 1919 in Faak am See near Villach, died 1984 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist.

Heinrich Streintz

Due to the frequent diseases of their son, the parents of Streintz moved to Graz.

Soon the mathematical abilities of Streintz were discovered, so he occupied the subjects mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Graz.

Herbard VIII von Auersperg

As a renowned pillar of Protestantism Herbard von Auersperg thus opposed strongly the counter-reformatory measures of the Inner-Austrian Court in Graz and resisted the Catholic clerics in Carniola, who were mostly strangers to the land.

Imma von Bodmershof

Imma von Bodmershof (née Emma Lilly Isolde von Ehrenfels) (August 10, 1895 – August 26, 1982) was an Austrian poet born in Graz.

Jindřich Bišický

At the beginning of World War I Bišický was drafted into the Infantry regiment No. 47 in Graz and became a member of the staff and the regimental photographer.

Johann Baptist Weiss

In 1850 he became editor of the Freiburger Zeitung; in 1852 he became involved in a quarrel with the Government of Baden and, on this account, accepted a call as professor of Austrian history from the University of Graz, where he remained during the years 1853-91.

Johann Michael Wächter

Born in Rappersdorf in Austria, Wächter sang in various church choirs in Vienna, making his stage début in 1819 at Graz as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Johannes Ertl

Johannes Bruno "Johnny" Ertl (born 13 November 1982 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian footballer who plays for Portsmouth.

Josef Geitler von Armingen

In 1919, when Czernowitz became a Romanian university, Geitler relocated to Graz, where he taught classes at the "Technische Universität Graz".

Julius von Hann

In 1897, he became professor of meteorology at the University of Graz, but returned to Vienna to fill the chair of professor of cosmic physics in 1900, where he remained until 1910.

Luigi Dallapiccola

The family, considered politically subversive, was placed in internment at Graz, Austria, where the budding composer did not even have access to a piano, though he did attend performances at the local opera house, which cemented his desire to pursue composition as a career.

Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization

It was established in 1921-1922 in Zagreb by students from Vardar Macedonia, it soon gained influence amongst Macedonian communities in Belgrade, Vienna, Graz, Prague, Ljubljana and other places where there Macedonian students.

Marie Renard

Born Marie Pölzl, she first studied voice with Louise Weinlich-Tipka in her native city of Graz and later in Berlin with Rosa de Ruda.

Mate Boban

Boban met with Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadžić during May 1992 in Graz, Austria where they agreed on mutual cooperation in the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina that became known as the Graz agreement (the pair met again on 2 September 1993 in Montenegro in order to coordinate their actions after the Bosniaks rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan).

Matija Mažuranić

Symptoms of mind degeneration have started to show, and he died at the sanatorium of a well-known psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, near Graz, on April 17, 1881.

Mihajlo Rostohar

Rostohar studied in Vienna and Graz under professor Alexius Meinong, and he received his PhD in Vienna in 1906 after defending his thesis — Über die Hypothese.

Nikola Tesla Museum

The life story of Nikola Tesla begins with the large-scale photograph from his period of studies in Graz, Austria.

Otto Wiener

He was born in Vienna, joined the Vienna Boys' Choir at the age of six, and started his adult career as a concert singer before making his stage debut in 1953 at Graz in the title-role of Simon Boccanegra.

Ottone Enrico del Caretto, Marquis of Savona

He married on July 31, 1667 Maria Theresia von Herberstein (Graz 1641 - Brussels 1682), widow of Franz Adam Graf von Losenstein.

Radoboj

Most of this type material is currently in Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, there is also considerable material from Radoboj in the Natural History Museum in Zagreb.

Richard Knabl

Richard Knabl (born October 24, 1789 in Graz, Styria; died June 19, 1874) was an Austrian parish priest and epigraphist who, though he lacked formal academic training as a historian, became a prominent contributor to our current knowledge of the Roman period in Noricum and eastern Pannonia, especially on the territory of modern Styria.

Sachertorte

Hotel Sacher's "Original Sacher Torte" is sold at the Vienna and Salzburg locations of the Hotel Sacher, at Cafe Sacher branches in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Sacher Shop in Bolzano, in the Duty Free area of Vienna airport and via the Hotel Sacher's online shop.

Sammy Adjei

On 24 March 2007, Adjei manned the post for Ghana against Austria in a FIFA International friendly in Graz.

Simmering-Graz-Pauker

During the 1950s Simmering-Graz-Pauker A.G. developed the SGP M-222 Flamingo, their first aircraft.

Split-single

Italian engineer Giovanni Marcellino arrived at the main factory of Puch in Graz to wind up operations.

Štruklji

The first recorded preparation of štruklji is said to be in 1589, when a chef at a manor in Graz wrote down the recipe for cooked štruklji with tarragon filling.

Talerhof

Talerhof was a concentration camp created by the Austro-Hungarian authorities of Franz Joseph I of Austria in the first days of World War I, in a sandy valley in foothills of the Alps, near Graz, the main city of the province of Styria.

Theresia Singer

In 1876 she joined the Théâtre-Italien in Paris, and in 1877 she sang at the Theater of Graz.

Upper Styria

The southwestern half of the state around the capital of Graz is known as Central Styria (Mittelsteiermark), which is further divided into Eastern and Western Styria (east and west of Graz).

Victor Francis Hess

From 1901 to 1905 Hess was an undergraduate student at the University of Graz, and continued postgraduate studies in physics until he received his PhD there in 1910.

Waltendorf

Waltendorf is the 9th district of the Austrian city of Graz.

Walter Körner

Walter Körner was born on the 26 January 1923, in Graz Austria.

Walter Koschatzky

Walter Koschatzky (b. 17 August 1921 in Graz, Styria, d. 9 May 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, curator and art history author.

In 1945 he commenced studies in art history, archeology, history and philosophy at the University of Graz and graduated in 1952.


Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria

Born in Graz and like all of her siblings, Catherine Renata suffered of the famous Habsburg inferior lip.

Christoph Kröpfl

Born in Graz, Kröpfl started playing football with the ESV Austria Graz.Later he joined the Sturm Graz Akademie to make his professional debut for SK Sturm Graz in the 2007/2008 season against SV Ried.

Eduard Wagnes

Eduard Wagnes (born 18 March 1863 in Graz, Austria - died 27 March 1936 in Bad Gams, Austria) was a conductor in the Austro-Hungarian Military, and composer of military marches.

Eggersdorf bei Graz

Eggersdorf bei Graz is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Erwin Kreyszig

In 1960 he became professor at the Technical University of Graz and organized the Graz 1964 Mathematical Congress.

Franco Foda

His son Sandro (born 1989) first appeared professionally with Sturm Graz in 2007, when his father was head coach.

Franz Unger

In 1836 he was named professor of botany at the University of Graz and also taught at the Joanneum (which became the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the Graz University of Technology); in 1850 professor of plant physiology in Vienna.

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

Following his graduation, he became a school instructor (chiefly of mathematics and physics) in Vienna, Graz, Neusohl, Gorz, Laibach (Ljubljana), and from 1764 Klagenfurt.

Grambach

Grambach is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Gustav Peichl

1969–82 ORF regional studios, in Dornbirn, Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg

Hanspeter Kyburz

In 1980, he began studying music composition, first in Graz with A. Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, then, from 1982–1990, with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, later with Hans Zender in Frankfurt.

Hart-Purgstall

Hart-Purgstall is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

House of Eggenberg

Hans founded the Radkersburg (later Ehrenhausen) line and Balthasar was the patriarch of the main Graz line which then also developed a branch in Augsburg.

Johannes de Thurocz

One copy is preserved at the Biblioteca Mănăstirii Brâncoveanu in Romania; a second at Graz University Library, Austria; and a third in Braşov, Romania (Parohia evanghelică C. A. Biserica Neagră 1251/2).

Joseph Franz Kaiser

As a member of the 2nd Graz Landwehr-Battalion and commander of its 6th Company, he fought at the battle of Raab under the command of Archduke John of Austria.

Jürgen Mandl

Jürgen Mandl (born August 19, 1965 in Graz) is an Austrian footballer (soccer player), decathlete, and bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.

Langegg bei Graz

Langegg bei Graz is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Larry Fuller

In Europe, Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story in Vienna and Nuremberg, created Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, and directed the European premieres of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and On the Town and George Gershwin's Girl Crazy.

Peggau

Peggau is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Puch

The main production plant, later called "Einser-Werk", was constructed in the south of Graz, in the district of Puntigam.

Puch 250 SGS

The Puch 250 SGS (Schwing-Gabel-Sport) was a motorcycle manufactured by the Austrian Steyr Daimler Puch AG in Thondorf near Graz.

Railjet

Operations on the routes Vienna to Graz, Ljubljana and/or Zagreb, and from Vienna to Villach and Venice and for an increased service between Vienna and Bregenz/Zurich via Salzburg and Innsbruck were also planned from the end of 2010 onwards.

Rohrbach-Steinberg

Rohrbach-Steinberg is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Röthelstein

Röthelstein is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Sankt Marein bei Graz

Sankt Marein bei Graz is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth

Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Schrems bei Frohnleiten

Schrems bei Frohnleiten is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Stiwoll

Stiwoll is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Werndorf

Werndorf is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Zwaring-Pöls

Zwaring-Pöls is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.