The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 4 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 30th most number of Social Activists behind South Korea and Cuba.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Austrian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alfred Hermann Fried (1864 - 1921)
With an HPI of 67.93, Alfred Hermann Fried is the most famous Austrian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 52 different languages on wikipedia.
Alfred Hermann Fried (German pronunciation: [ˈʔalfʁeːt ˈhɛʁman ˈfʁiːt]; 11 November 1864 – 4 May 1921) was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto. He is the author of an Esperanto textbook and an Esperanto-German and German-Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1903 and republished in 1905.
2. Maria Altmann (1916 - 2011)
With an HPI of 60.96, Maria Altmann is the 2nd most famous Austrian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Maria Altmann (née Maria Victoria Bloch, later Bloch-Bauer; February 18, 1916 – February 7, 2011) was an Austrian-American Jewish refugee from Austria, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Third Reich. She is noted for her ultimately successful legal campaign to reclaim from the Government of Austria five family-owned paintings by the artist Gustav Klimt that were stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
3. Bertha Pappenheim (1859 - 1936)
With an HPI of 59.81, Bertha Pappenheim is the 3rd most famous Austrian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented patients because of Sigmund Freud's writing on Breuer's case.
4. Diana Budisavljević (1891 - 1978)
With an HPI of 52.45, Diana Budisavljević is the 4th most famous Austrian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Diana Budisavljević (née Obexer; 15 January 1891 – 20 August 1978) was an Austrian humanitarian who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II. From October 1941, on her initiative and involving many co-workers, she organized and provided assistance to mostly Serbian Orthodox women and children detained in the Ustaše camps in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi puppet state established in occupied Yugoslavia. The operation, known as "Action Diana Budisavljević", succeeded in saving around 10,000 children. After her story was better publicized in the 2000s and 2010s, she received substantial posthumous recognition.
Pantheon has 4 people classified as social activists born between 1859 and 1916. Of these 4, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased social activists include Alfred Hermann Fried, Maria Altmann, and Bertha Pappenheim.
Deceased Social Activists
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Alfred Hermann Fried
1864 - 1921
HPI: 67.93
Maria Altmann
1916 - 2011
HPI: 60.96
Bertha Pappenheim
1859 - 1936
HPI: 59.81
Diana Budisavljević
1891 - 1978
HPI: 52.45
Which Social Activists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Social Activists since 1700.
