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- Unreconciled to this settlement, Franz Joseph adopted a foreign policy that prepared the way for a passage at arms with Italy and Prussia, by which he hoped to regain for Austria its former position in Germany and Italy, as it had been established by Metternich in 1814–15.
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Aug 14, 2024 · Franz Joseph (born August 18, 1830, Schloss Schönbrunn, near Vienna, Austria—died November 21, 1916, Schloss Schönbrunn) was the emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916), who divided his empire into the Dual Monarchy, in which Austria and Hungary coexisted as equal partners.
Franz Joseph founded in 1872 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).
Franz Joseph’s government was shaken to its very foundations by Austria’s humiliating defeat at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, which resulted in the final loss of Habsburg primacy among the German princes.
Jan 6, 2015 · When Mahler reached Vienna, the Emperor Franz Joseph was 67 years old and had reigned for almost fifty years. His was liberal, had a tolerant nature and hatred of anti-Semitism. Franz Joseph himself was a Catholic.
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.
Towards the end of his life he became a semi-mythical figure, a symbol of the Monarchy who was beyond criticism. Even today, Franz Joseph is regarded as the very epitome of the emperor in the successor states of the Monarchy.
The fiftieth anniversary of Franz Joseph's accession to the Austrian throne fell on December 2, 1898.! Unfortunately, 1898 was not only the year of the emperor's golden jubilee, but also the mid-point of an ongoing political crisis that was to last into 1899. It had begun on April 5, 1897, when the prime minister, Count Kasimierz Badeni,
