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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

1837 - 1898

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Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was born into the Ducal royal branch of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach but enjoyed an informal upbringing before marrying her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I, at 16. The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and which she found suffocating. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Elisabeth of Austria has received more than 10,917,856 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Empress Elisabeth of Austria is the 2nd most popular companion, the 22nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 24th in 2019) and the most popular German Companion.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria was most famous for being the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, and for her tragic death in 1898.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Empress Elisabeth of Austrias by language

Over the past year Empress Elisabeth of Austria has had the most page views in the with 1,971,978 views, followed by German (1,425,961), and French (816,946). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Vietnamese (5,208.57%), Cantonese (552.04%), and Wu Chinese (372.57%)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 2 out of 784. Before her are Nefertiti. After her are Fatimah, Anne Boleyn, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Madame de Pompadour, Aisha, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Madame du Barry, Mihrimah Sultan, Catherine de' Medici, and Klara Hitler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1. After her are Alois Hitler, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, J. P. Morgan, Grover Cleveland, Fredrik Bajer, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Mily Balakirev, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Cosima Wagner, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Marie François Sadi Carnot. Among people deceased in 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 2. Before her is Otto von Bismarck. After her are Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 22 out of 7,253. Before her are Richard Wagner (1813), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Max Weber (1864), George Frideric Handel (1685), and Wilhelm Röntgen (1845). After her are Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Karl Dönitz (1891).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1. After her are Eva Braun (1912), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Anne of Cleves (1515), Magda Goebbels (1901), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Katharina von Bora (1498), and Alexandra Feodorovna (1798).

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