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Franz Joseph I of Austria

1830 - 1916

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Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (German: Franz Josef Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916. In the early part of his reign, his realms and territories were referred to as the Austrian Empire, but were reconstituted as the dual monarchy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Joseph I of Austria has received more than 10,413,165 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Franz Joseph I of Austria is the 108th most popular politician (down from 40th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Austria (down from 7th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Politician.

Franz Joseph I was the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and Bohemia from 1848 to 1916. He was the longest-reigning Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and the second-longest-reigning monarch of the Habsburg dynasty.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Franz Joseph I of Austria ranks 108 out of 19,576. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, Boris Yeltsin, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Darius the Great, Heinrich Himmler, and Angela Merkel. After him are Henry IV of France, Lorenzo de' Medici, Murad IV, Pepin the Short, Harry S. Truman, and Silvio Berlusconi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Franz Joseph I of Austria ranks 1. After him are Camille Pissarro, Isabella II of Spain, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Abdülaziz, Frédéric Mistral, Paul Heyse, Emily Dickinson, Hector Malot, Porfirio Díaz, Isma'il Pasha, and Julius Lothar Meyer. Among people deceased in 1916, Franz Joseph I of Austria ranks 2. Before him is Grigori Rasputin. After him are Jack London, Ernst Mach, Yuan Shikai, Henryk Sienkiewicz, William Ramsay, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Élie Metchnikoff, Franz Marc, Odilon Redon, and Umberto Boccioni.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Joseph I of Austria ranks 9 out of 1,424. Before him are Marie Antoinette (1755), Maria Theresa (1717), Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Franz Liszt (1811), and Gustav Klimt (1862). After him are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (1791), Stefan Zweig (1881), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863), and Erwin Schrödinger (1887).

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Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Franz Joseph I of Austria ranks 3. Before him are Adolf Hitler (1889), and Maria Theresa (1717). After him are Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), Ferdinand I of Austria (1793), Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747), Charles I of Austria (1887), Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640), Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552), and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578).

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