100 Notable alumni of
University of Graz
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The University of Graz is 361st in the world, 126th in Europe, and 5th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Graz sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Graz won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine.
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Heinrich Harrer
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- writeralpine skierexplorermountaineergeographer
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Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps. While on expedition in the Indian Himalayas, Harrer and his group were arrested by British forces because of the outbreak of World War II and he escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951 and never seeing active combat. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).
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Peter Handke
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- prose writertranslatorwriterplaywrightscreenwriter
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Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
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Ivo Andrić
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- In 1924 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
- Occupations
- diplomatwriternovelistessayistpoet
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Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- In 1854 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- journalisthistorianwriteruniversity teacher
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Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name.
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Karel Schwarzenberg
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- entrepreneurpoliticianforeign ministerdiplomat
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Karel, 12th and 7th Prince of Schwarzenberg was a Czech politician, diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013. Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2010 to 2021 and in the Senate from 2004 until 2010.
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Luis Trenker
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- bobsledderscreenwriterphotographerfilm actorfilm producer
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Luis Trenker was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist, and bobsledder.
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Clemens Arvay
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- biologistnon-fiction writerwriterYouTuberjournalist
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Clemens Georg Arvay was an Austrian author of nonfiction books with an emphasis on health ecology. In particular, his controversial conclusions about the relationship between the benefit and risk of the corona vaccines attracted media attention.
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Karl Böhm
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- composerconductormusic director
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Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
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Otto Gross
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- psychiatristwriterpsychoanalystphysician
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Otto Hans Adolf Gross was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community.
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Werner Kogler
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- politician
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Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who has been serving as Vice-Chancellor of Austria and minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the governments of chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg, and Karl Nehammer since 7 January 2020.
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Walther Nernst
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Studied in 1886
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physicist and physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.
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Valentin Inzko
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- translatorpoliticianlinguistdiplomat
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Valentin Inzko is an Austrian diplomat who served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2021. He also served as the European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2021.
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Peter Rosegger
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- writerpoet
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Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most prolific poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary.
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Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- 1988-1993 graduated with Magister Juris in legal science
- 1994-1998 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek is an Austrian politician of the Austrian Green Party, and its federal spokeswoman from 2008 until 2017. She was the plaintiff in the landmark case Eva Glawishnig-Piesczek v. Facebook Ireland, in which she sued Facebook for defamation to compel the social media company to globally censor the "defamatory and all equivalent" posts.
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Raphael M. Bonelli
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- university teacherpsychotherapistYouTuberneurologistpsychologist
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Raphael M. Bonelli is an Austrian neuroscientist and psychiatrist.
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Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Graduated with postgraduate education in theology
- Occupations
- priesthistorianclergyman
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Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.
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Peter Struve
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- journalisteconomistwriterpolitician
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Peter Berngardovich Struve (Russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве; pronounced [pʲɵtr bʲɪrnˈɡardəvʲɪtɕˈstruvʲɪ]; 26 January 1870 – 22 February 1944) was a Russian political economist, philosopher, historian and editor. He started his career as a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik Revolution joined the White movement. From 1920, he lived in exile in Paris, where he was a prominent critic of Russian Communism.
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Karl von Terzaghi
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- geologistuniversity teacherinventor
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Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".
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Irmgard Griss
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- 1965-1970 graduated with Doctor of Laws in political science and government and legal science
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- politicianjudgejurist
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Irmgard Griss, also known as Irmgard Griss-Reiterer, is an Austrian politician, lawyer and judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 2007 to 2011. She registered as an independent candidate at the 2016 presidential election and came in third position.
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Monika Martin
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- singer
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Monika Martin is an Austrian singer of pop and folk music. Between 1999 and 2021, several of her singles have charted on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, the Swiss Hitparade, and the Deutsche Albumcharts. She was the recipient of the Goldene Stimmgabel prize in September 2006.
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Otto Loewi
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- university teacherpharmacologistneuroscientistpharmacistphysiologist
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Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.
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Gordon Gollob
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- military personnelaircraft pilotsoldier
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Gordon Gollob was an Austrian fighter pilot during World War II. A fighter ace, he was credited with 150 enemy aircraft shot down in over 340 combat missions. Gollob claimed the majority of his victories over the Eastern Front, and six over the Western Front.
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Lasgush Poradeci
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- poettranslatorwriterlinguist
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Llazar Sotir Gusho, commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.
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Victor Francis Hess
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- researcherphysicistprofessor
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Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays.
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Christina Pluhar
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- theorbistconductorchoir directorlutenistharpist
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Christina Pluhar is an Austrian theorbist, harpist, conductor, and director of L'Arpeggiata ensemble.
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Clemens J. Setz
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- translatorwriterpoet
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Clemens J. Setz is an Austrian writer and translator.
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Gerhard Liebmann
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- actor
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Gerhard Liebmann is an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1998.
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Anton Korošec
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- Catholic priestwriterpoliticiantheologian
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Anton Korošec was a Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator.
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Beate Hartinger-Klein
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Beate Hartinger-Klein is an Austrian healthcare and insurance manager, educator and politician. A member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), she was a member of the National Council from October 1999 to December 2002. From December 2017 to May 2019, Hartinger-Klein served as minister of social affairs in the first government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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Eduard von Keyserling
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- playwrightwriter
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Johann Heinrich Eduard Nicolaus Graf von Keyserling was a Baltic German fiction writer and dramatist, an exponent of literary impressionism and associated with the historic region of Courland.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
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- composeracademic musicianuniversity teacherclassical pianist
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Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.
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Fritz Pregl
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- physicistphysicianpharmacistchemistprofessor
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Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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John Ogilvie
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- Catholic priest
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John Ogilvie, SJ was a Scottish Jesuit martyr. For his work as a priest in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.
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Michael Fleischhacker
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- television presenterjournalist
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Michael Fleischhacker is an Austrian journalist. He was director and editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Die Presse from 2004 until 2012.
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Martin Kušej
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- theatrical director
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Martin Kušej is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the German-speaking world since the millennium. He is considered one of the most important directors working today, acclaimed for his dark and incisive productions.
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Christian Wehrschütz
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- television presenterjournalistjurist
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Christian Ferdinand Wehrschütz, born October 9, 1961, in Graz, is an Austrian journalist. He speaks German, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian/Croatian, French, Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian and is a military interpreter of Russian and Ukrainian. He is married and has two daughters.
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Juliane Bogner-Strauß
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- 1999-2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- biochemistresearcherpoliticianmolecular biologist
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Juliane Bogner-Strauß, is an Austrian molecular biologist, biochemist, and politician in the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Since October 2013 she is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of Graz University of Technology. From 18 December 2017 she was Federal Minister for Families and Youth of the Republic of Austria, since 8 January 2018 she is Federal Minister for Women, Families and Youth in the Federal Chancellery. Since 9 July 2018, she is the Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism.
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John Sarkander
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- presbyter
- Biography
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Jan Sarkander was a Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest. Sarkander was married for a short period of time before he became widowed and pursued a path to the priesthood where he became active in defence of Catholicism during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and conflict. He himself was arrested on false accusations as a means of silencing him and he refused to give in to his tormenters who tortured him for around a month before he died.
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Andreas Mölzer
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Andreas Mölzer is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.
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Count Karl von Stürgkh
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- politician
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Count Karl von Stürgkh was an Austrian politician and Minister-President of Cisleithania during the 1914 July Crisis that led to the outbreak of World War I. He was shot and killed by the Social Democratic politician Friedrich Adler.
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Henrik Dam
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- university teacherpedagoguechemistphysicianphysiologist
- Biography
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Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.
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Heinz Oberhummer
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- astrophysicistphysicistuniversity teacherastronomernon-fiction writer
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Heinz Oberhummer was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.
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Marie Kreutzer
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian filmmaker.
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Joseph Marx
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- academiccomposerwriteruniversity teachermusic critic
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Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic.
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Nadezhda Suslova
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- obstetriciangynaecologistphysiciansurgeon
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Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova was Russia's first woman medical doctor and the sister of Polina Suslova. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts.
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Alfons Gorbach
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- politiciancivil servant
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Alfons Gorbach was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1961 to 1964.
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Gerald Klug
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- politician
- Biography
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Gerald Klug is an Austrian jurist and politician who served as minister of transport, innovation and technology in 2016. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as minister of defence and sports from 2013 to 2016.
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Martin Polaschek
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- university teacherlegal historianjurist
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Martin F. Polaschek is an Austrian legal scholar and legal historian who has served as Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research in the Nehammer government since 6 December 2021. An Independent, he was nominated by the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
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Ernst Moro
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- physicianuniversity teacher
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Ernst Moro was an Austrian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe the infant reflex that was named after him (Moro reflex).
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Alois Stadlober
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- cross-country skier
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Alois Stadlober is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2000. He earned two medals at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and a silver in the 10 km.
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Siegfried Nagl
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- politician
- Biography
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Siegfried Nagl is an Austrian politician with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was mayor of Graz from 2003 to 2021.
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Marko Krizin
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- priestCatholic theologianmissionary
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Marko Stjepan Krizin, or Marko Križevčanin (Hungarian: Kőrösi Márk, English: Mark of Križevci) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the struggle between Catholicism and Calvinism in the region then, he was executed for his faith. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, the third Croat to be so honored.
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Janko Kersnik
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- mayorwriterjuristpoetliterary critic
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Janko Kersnik was a writer and politician from Austria-Hungary who was an ethnic Slovene. Together with Josip Jurčič, he is considered the most important representative of literary realism in the Slovene language.
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Aurel Popovici
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- journalistpoliticianopinion journalist
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Aurel Constantin Popovici was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian lawyer and politician.
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Barbara Frischmuth
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- prose writertranslatorwriterpoetplaywright
- Biography
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Barbara Frischmuth is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.
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Martin Bartenstein
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- politician
- Biography
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Martin Bartenstein is an Austrian businessman and politician who held different cabinet portfolios between 1995 and 2008. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party.
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Jörg Leichtfried
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- politician
- Biography
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Jörg Leichtfried is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the National Council since the 2017 elections. He previously served as Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology in the government of Chancellor Christian Kern from 2016 until 2017.
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Richard Mollier
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- physicistengineerprofessor
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Richard Mollier was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in thermodynamics, particularly for water, steam, and moist air.
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Franz Miklosich
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- slavistlinguistpedagoguelawyerlibrarian
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Franz Miklosich was a Slovene philologist.
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Lisa Kaltenegger
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- university teacherphysicistastronomer
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Lisa Kaltenegger is an Austrian world-leading astronomer with expertise in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On July 1, 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths and Life" group, and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA. She was appointed Lecturer in 2008 at Harvard University and 2011 at University of Heidelberg.
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Hans Friderichs
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Hans Friderichs is a German politician who served as the minister of economy in the period 1972–1977. He is also a jurist and businessman.
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Otto Erich Deutsch
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- music historianbiographercomposermusicologistlibrarian
- Biography
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Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's works derive.
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María Dueñas
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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María Dueñas Fernández is a Spanish violinist and composer. In 2021 she won the first prize in the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, in the senior category. She is considered the Spanish violinist with the greatest international profile, and one of the most promising musicians of her generation. In 2022 she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
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Robert Holzmann
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist and the current Governor of Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.
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Petina Gappah
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Graduated with Doctor of Laws in commercial law
- Occupations
- writercommercial lawyer (Europe)poet lawyerjuristjournalist
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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.
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Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg
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- translatorwriterpoetpoet lawyerpolitician
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Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known under the name Anastasius Grün, was an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola, a former Habsburg crown land in today's Slovenia.
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Josef Krainer junior
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- politician
- Biography
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Josef Krainer junior was an Austrian politician and Governor of Styria from 1981 to 1996. He was the son of Governor Josef Krainer senior and a member of the Austrian People's Party.
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Constant von Wurzbach
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Studied in 1835-1837
- Occupations
- opinion journalistofficiallibrarianbibliographerpoet
- Biography
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Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
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Claudia Bandion-Ortner
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- politicianjudgejurist
- Biography
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Claudia Bandion-Ortner is an Austrian judge and politician, who served as the minister of justice.
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Alois Riehl
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- university teacherphilosopherbotanist
- Biography
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Alois Adolf Riehl was an Austrian neo-Kantian philosopher. He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). He was the brother of Josef Riehl.
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Siegmund von Hausegger
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Studied philosophy, art history, study of history, and literature
- Occupations
- conductorcomposerwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Siegmund von Hausegger was an Austrian composer and conductor.
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Beatrix Karl
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- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Beatrix Karl is an Austrian academic and politician. A former member of the National Council, she served as Minister for Science and Research (2010–2011) and as Minister of Justice (2011–2013) in the first Faymann government.
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Wilhelm Krautwaschl
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Wilhelm Krautwaschl is an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate. He has served as the bishop of Graz-Seckau since 2015.
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs
- Enrolled in the University of Graz
- Studied in 1921
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs was a German-American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
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Alfred Kolleritsch
- Occupations
- poetwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Alfred Kolleritsch was an Austrian journalist, poet and philosopher.
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Gottfried Schatz
- Occupations
- biochemistuniversity teachernon-fiction writerchemist
- Biography
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Gottfried Schatz was a Swiss-Austrian biochemist.
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August Musger
- Occupations
- physicistCatholic priest
- Biography
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Professor August Musger was an Austrian priest and physicist who is best remembered for his invention of slow motion.
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Ines Stilling
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- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Ines Stilling is an Austrian civil servant who served as the Minister for Women, Families and Youth in the Bierlein government.
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Johann Weber
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Johann Weber was an Austrian Catholic bishop.
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Lazar Tomanović
- Occupations
- writerpoliticiancivil servantteacherjournalist
- Biography
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Lazar Tomanović, PhD was a Montenegrin and Dalmatian Serb writer, politician and diplomat, who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Montenegro, as well the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro, under the regime of King Nikola I.
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Gabriel Gruber
- Occupations
- engineerastronomerarchitecttheologian
- Biography
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Gabriel Gruber, SJ was an Austrian cleric and polymath of Slovenian descent. Aside from his classical formation for the priesthood, his interests ranged across agriculture, architecture, astronomy, engineering, hydrology, physics, chemistry and art. Between 1773 and 1784 he was the engineer at the court of Emperor Joseph II. Having moved to Russia where Vatican law did not apply, he was welcomed at the Court of Catherine the Great as an engineer and saw there an opportunity to resume his monastic career among his exiled Jesuit brethren. He became the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus in Russia during the Holy See's suppression of the Society in Europe and its colonies and manifested great political skill in safeguarding the survival of the Jesuit order.
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Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac
- Years
- 1621-1684 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- statespersondiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac was a nobleman and statesman of Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Chancellor (1658–1684) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Walter Pfrimer
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Walter Pfrimer was an Austrian politician and leader of the Heimwehr in Styria. He was the leader of a failed putsch in 1931.
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György Almásy
- Occupations
- explorerzoologistornithologistethnographer
- Biography
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György Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian Asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer. His son, László Almásy, was an aviator, Afrologist and soldier.
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Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff
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- juristdiplomat
- Biography
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Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, is the Austrian ambassador in Prague.
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Franz Unger
- Occupations
- mycologistwriteruniversity teacherbotanistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger was an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.
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Christian Buchmann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christian Buchmann is an Austrian politician (Austrian People's Party) and Member of the Styrian Parliament. He was the President of the Austrian Federal Council from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021.
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Izidor Cankar
- Occupations
- translatorwritertheologianlinguistjournalist
- Biography
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Izidor Cankar was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th century, and one of the most influential cultural figures in interwar Slovenia.
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Matko Laginja
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Matko Laginja was a Croatian lawyer and politician.
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Sofia Galechko
- Occupations
- soldiermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Sofia Halechko was an Austro-Hungarian soldier and Ukrainian nationalist that was a member of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen during World War I. Her first language was Polish but hoped of achieving independence for Ukrainians and joined the riflemen to do so.
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Milan Zver
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Milan Zver is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party. He is the Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education and Sports from 2004 to 2008.
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Gabriel Anton
- Occupations
- psychiatristphysicianneurologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gabriel Anton was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.
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Erich Schmidt
- Occupations
- historianarchivistuniversity teachergermanistliterary historian
- Biography
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Erich Schmidt was a German historian of literature.
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Slavko Avsenik, Jr
- Occupations
- pianistcomposereditorrecord producer
- Biography
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Slavko Avsenik Jr. is a Slovenian composer and pianist. He is also the author of numerous children's songs. He is the son of the Slavko Avsenik.
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Karl Ritter von Stremayr
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- politicianjudgepedagogue
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Karl Ritter von Stremayr was an Austrian statesman. He served as the 9th Minister-President of Cisleithania.
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Martin Eichtinger
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- diplomat
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Martin Eichtinger is an Austrian diplomat, lawyer and former politician (ÖVP, Austrian People's Party, member of the EPP - European People's Party). From March 2018 to March 2023, Martin Eichtinger served as a Member of the Regional Government of Lower Austria responsible for Housing, Labour and International Relations. After completing his term of office, he returned to the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. He is currently Special Envoy and Coordinator for Austria's neighborhood policy and the foreign policy dimension of the Danube Region.
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Fran Ramovš
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- linguistdialectologist
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Fran Ramovš was a Slovenian linguist. He studied the dialects and onomastics of Slovene.
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Safet Butka
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- politician
- Biography
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Safet Butka was an Albanian professor, politician and nationalist. Son of famous patriot Sali Butka, he organized the student demonstrations in April 1939 during the Italian invasion and was interned in Ventotene. Upon his return he organized antifascist movements in his native region and was one of the founders of the nationalist organization Balli Kombëtar. Distressed by internal civil war in Albania, he killed himself in 1943.
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Ernst Wertheim
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- university teachergynaecologist
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Ernst Wertheim was an Austrian gynecologist born in Graz.
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Gilbert Prilasnig
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- association football player
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Gilbert Prilasnig is an Austrian former football player who is currently the sporting director for SK Sturm Graz Jugend.
