100 Notable alumni of
University of Innsbruck
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The University of Innsbruck is 354th in the world, 121st in Europe, and 4th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Innsbruck sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Innsbruck won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Alexander Van der Bellen
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- In 1966 graduated with Master of Economics in economics
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
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Alexander Van der Bellen is the current president of Austria. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.
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Heinz Fischer
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- university teacherpoliticianjurist
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Heinz Fischer GColIH, OMRI, RSerafO, GCollSE is a former Austrian politician. He took office as President of Austria on 8 July 2004 and was re-elected for a second and last term on 25 April 2010, leaving office on 8 July 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004, he suspended his party membership as he became president.
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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- physiologistbiologistuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields. Bertalanffy proposed that the classical laws of thermodynamics might be applied to closed systems, but not necessarily to "open systems" such as living things. His mathematical model of an organism's growth over time, published in 1934, is still in use today.
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Irmfried Eberl
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- physician
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Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp where he worked as SS-Obersturmführer from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942. He was arrested after the end of the war in January 1948. Eberl hanged himself the following month to avoid trial.
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Armin Wolf
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- television presenterjournalistnews presenter
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Armin Wolf is an Austrian journalist and television anchor. In 2017 Politico Europe called him "one of Europe’s most skilled (and feared) political journalists". He was named "European Journalist of the Year 2019" at the Prix Europa media contest.
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Horst Schumann
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- military physician
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Horst Schumann was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass sterilization of Jews by means of X-rays.
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Arno Kompatscher
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- politicianjurist
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Arno Kompatscher is an Italian politician and governor of South Tyrol. From 15 June 2016 to 7 July 2021 he also was president of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
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Ivo Sanader
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- politicianjournalist
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Ivo Sanader is a Croatian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009. He is currently serving a prison sentence for corruption in Remetinec prison.
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Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg and Archduke of Austria, Prince of Tuscany by birth.
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Sigrid Maurer
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 2004-2008 studied musicology and political science
- Occupations
- politician
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Sigrid Maurer is an Austrian politician, and former student representative, (GRAS). Since 7 January of 2020 she serves as the club chairwoman of the Austrian Greens and is a member of the Austrian national council since 2019 and before between 2013 and 2017.
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Josyf Slipyj
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Josyf Slipyi was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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Andreas Khol
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- politician
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Andreas Khol is an Austrian politician of the centre-conservative Austrian People's Party, President of the National Council from 2002 to 2006.
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Bruno Platter
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- theologianCatholic priest
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Bruno Platter was the 65th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. He served three terms and retired in 2018 at the age of 74.
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Matthias Strolz
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- politician
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Matthias Strolz is an Austrian politician. He is the founder of the political party NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum and was its first leader and a member of Austria's National Council from 29 October 2013 until 26 September 2018.
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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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Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte
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- military personnelpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
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Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte was a German paratroop officer during World War II who later served in the armed forces of West Germany, achieving the rank of General. Following the war, Heydte pursued academic, political and military careers, as a Catholic-conservative professor of political science, a member of the Christian Social Union political party, and as a Bundeswehr reservist. In 1962, Heydte was involved in the Spiegel affair.
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Edward J. Flanagan
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- Catholic priest
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Right Rev. Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States, who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Catholic Diocese of Omaha, he founded the orphanage and educational complex known as Boys Town, located west of the city in what is now Boys Town, Douglas County, Nebraska. In the 21st century, the complex also serves as a center for troubled youth.
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Ulrike Lunacek
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- journalistinterpretertranslatorpolitician
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Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Greens – The Green Alternative, part of the European Green Party.
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Severin Schwan
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- manager
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Severin Anton Schwan is the current chairman of the board and previously was CEO of the Roche Group. He was the CEO between 2008 and 2023. He joined in 1993 as a trainee and has stayed with the company ever since.
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Susanne Raab
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- In 2009 studied psychology
- In 2010 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
- Occupations
- politicianjuristcivil servant
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Susanne Raab is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as Minister for Integration (since 2020) and as Minister for Women, Family and Youth (since 2021) in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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Aleksandras Stulginskis
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- journalistpoliticianfarmerdiplomat
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Aleksandras Stulginskis [ɐlʲɛkˈsɐ̂ˑndrɐs stʊlʲˈɡʲɪ̂nʲsʲkʲɪs] was the second President of Lithuania (1920–1926). Stulginskis was also acting President of Lithuania for a few hours later in 1926, following a military coup that was led by his predecessor, President Antanas Smetona, and which had brought down Stulginskis's successor, Kazys Grinius. The coup returned Smetona to office after Stulginskis's brief formal assumption of the Presidency.
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Susanne Riess
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- politician
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Susanne Riess is a former Austrian politician of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Riess-Passer is now CEO of the Wüstenrot-Gruppe.
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Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. is a Honduran prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Tegucigalpa from 1993 to 2023. He was president of Caritas Internationalis and served as president of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999.
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Roman Rafreider
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- television presenterjournalistnews presenter
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Roman Rafreider is an Austrian television host and journalist.
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Augustin Bea
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- theologianuniversity teacherCatholic priest
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Augustin Bea, S.J., was a German Jesuit priest, cardinal, and scholar at the Pontifical Gregorian University, specialising in biblical studies and biblical archaeology. He also served as the personal confessor of Pope Pius XII.
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Ewald Stadler
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- politicianlawyer
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Ewald Johann Stadler, is an Austrian right-wing conservative politician. He was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) until 2007, and a member of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) from 2007 until 2013. He ran for the European Parliament in 2009 as BZÖ's leading candidate and was a member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2014. In 2014 he was chosen as the first party leader of The Reform Conservatives (REKOS).
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Alois Negrelli
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- engineerarchitectcivil engineer
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Nikolaus Alois Maria Vinzenz Negrelli, Ritter von Moldelbe was a Tyrolean civil engineer and railroad pioneer mostly active in parts of the Austrian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
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Martin Kocher
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- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Martin Georg Kocher is an Austrian economist, academic, and politician who has been Minister of Labour since January 2021 and Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs since 11 May 2022. He was a professor at the University of East Anglia before moving to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Vienna. There he taught as a professor of behavioral economics and experimental economic research, and was also a visiting professor in Gothenburg and at the University of Queensland. His research interests are in behavioral economics, experimental economics, and economic psychology.
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
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- botanistphysicianpteridologistbiologistgeologist
- Biography
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
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Ingrid Felipe
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- Studied business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ingrid Felipe is an Austrian politician from the Green Party. She has been second deputy Governor of Tyrol since May 2013 and from June to October 2017, she served as federal spokeswoman of her party.
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Eva Klotz
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- politician
- Biography
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Eva Klotz is an Italian politician. She was a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol for 31 years, from 1983 until 2014. She represented several parties during that time, latterly (from 2007) the South Tyrolean Freedom.
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Max Valier
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- writerphysicistastronomerinventorscience fiction writer
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Max Valier was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He was a leading figure in the world's first large-scale rocket program, Opel-RAK, and helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century.
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Raoul Schrott
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- Studied English studies and German studies
- Occupations
- literary criticpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
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Adolf Bertram
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- politicianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Adolf Bertram was archbishop of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Clemens von Pirquet
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- bacteriologistphysicianuniversity teacherimmunologist
- Biography
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Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology.
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Magnus Brunner
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1990-1996 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Magnus Brunner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as Austria's finance minister since 6 December 2021 in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
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Bruno Buchberger
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Bruno Buchberger is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases, and has developed this theory throughout his career. He named these objects after his advisor Wolfgang Gröbner. Since 1995, he has been active in the Theorema project at the University of Linz.
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Josef Penninger
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- geneticist
- Biography
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Josef Penninger is an Austrian biomedical researcher specialising in molecular immunology. He was the scientific director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology located at the Vienna Biocenter until 2018. In February 2018, he announced his decision to leave Vienna and become the head of the Life Sciences Institute of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Josef Aschbacher
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- astronomermeteorologistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Josef Aschbacher is Director General of the European Space Agency, a position he has held since 1 March 2021. His international career in space combines more than 35 years' of experience at ESA, the European Commission, the Austrian Space Agency, the Asian Institute of Technology and the University of Innsbruck.
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Zygmunt Zimowski
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Zygmunt Zimowski was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop Zimowski had served until his death in July 2016 as President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, having been head of that office since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 April 2009. He previously served as bishop of Radom from 2002 until 2009.
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Shtjefën Gjeçovi
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- ethnologistCatholic priest
- Biography
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Shtjefën Konstantin Gjeçov-Kryeziu was an Albanian Catholic priest, ethnologist, and folklorist from Kosovo. He is regarded as the father of Albanian folklore studies.
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Andreas Rett
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- neurologistphysician writer
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Andreas Rett was an Austrian neurologist and author. He is famous for his research on neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly for his description of Rett syndrome, which was named after him, and for pioneering treatment based on the belief that disabled children also have a right to fulfillment of their physical, emotional, and psychological needs. He received many awards, including the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein
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- friar
- Biography
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Fra' Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein was a Grand Commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He was acting head of the order for some months in 2017.
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Otto Bradfisch
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- economistjuristGestapo employee
- Biography
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Otto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant colonel), leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam.
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Markus Wallner
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1985-1989 graduated with magister degree in political science
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- politician
- Biography
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Markus Wallner is an Austrian politician (ÖVP). Since 2011, he has been the governor of Vorarlberg.
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Norbert Gstrein
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- writer
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Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935). He grews up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD (no defense of his thesis Zur Logik der Fragen) in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
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Peter Zoller
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- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Peter Zoller is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He is professor at the University of Innsbruck and works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on quantum computing and quantum communication and for bridging quantum optics and solid state physics.
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Julia Unterberger
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Juliane "Julia" Unterberger is an Italian lawyer and politician from South Tyrol.
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Cuno Tarfusser
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cuno Jakob Tarfusser is an Italian judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Wolfgang Brezinka
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- pedagogueuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wolfgang Brezinka was a German-Austrian educational scientist. He served as Professor of Pedagogy at the School of education of the University of Würzburg, as well as at the Universities of Innsbruck and Konstanz.
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Herwig van Staa
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- politician
- Biography
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Herwig van Staa was the governor of Tyrol from 2002 to 2008.
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Philipp Achammer
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- politician
- Biography
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Philipp Achammer is an Italian politician active in South Tyrol, who is serving as leader of the South Tyrolean People's Party since 2014.
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Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Prince Stefan Carl Manfred Alfred Alexander Joseph Maria of Liechtenstein is Liechtenstein's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See and former Ambassador to Germany and Switzerland.
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Otto Ender
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Otto Ender was an Austrian political figure. He served as the chancellor of Austria between 1930 and 1931.
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Eckart Ratz
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- In 1978 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
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- juristpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Eckart Ratz is an Austrian jurist who served as a judge and the president of the Supreme Court of Justice. From 2011 to 2012 he was a vice president of the Supreme Court. On 22 May 2019, he was appointed Austrian minister of the interior, replacing Herbert Kickl who had been dismissed from office by President Alexander Van der Bellen. Originally, Ratz was going to serve as a cabinet minister of the transitional government until the General Elections in fall 2019; however, the entire second Kurz government was ousted by a vote of no-confidence, after it lost support in parliament by the former coalition partner FPÖ.
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Steven J. Lopes
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Steven Joseph Lopes is an American Catholic prelate. He is the bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a community for clergy and laypeople who celebrate according to the Anglican Use within the Catholic Church.
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Hans Köchler
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Köchler is a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and president of the International Progress Organization, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations. In his general philosophical outlook he is influenced by Husserl and Heidegger, his legal thinking has been shaped by the approach of Kelsen. Köchler has made contributions to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology and has developed a hermeneutics of trans-cultural understanding that has influenced the discourse on the relations between Islam and the West.
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Andreas Maislinger
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- historianpeace activistwriteruniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and former chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad. He also is the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award, the Braunau Contemporary History Days and the inventor of the idea of the House of Responsibility.
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Edmund Aloysius Walsh
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1913-1914 studied Catholic theology
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- academic administratorgeopolitical analystCatholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Edmund Aloysius Walsh was an American Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and career diplomat from South Boston, Massachusetts. He was also an author, professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the first school for international affairs ever founded in the United States. He founded the school in 1919–six years before the U.S. Foreign Service itself even existed–and served as its first regent.
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Claudia Lösch
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- quizzeralpine skier
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Claudia Lösch is a successful Austrian Paralympian and alpine monoskier. She won gold medals in the slalom and super slalom at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. She also won a silver medal at the Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's super-G.
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Valentino Braitenberg
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- writerroboticistuniversity teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Valentino Braitenberg was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist. He was former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
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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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Gero Miesenböck
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- university teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Gero Andreas Miesenböck is an Austrian scientist. He is currently Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Erika Mahringer
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- alpine skier
- Biography
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Erika "Riki" Mahringer was an Austrian alpine skier.
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Meinhard Michael Moser
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- university teachermycologistbotanist
- Biography
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Meinhard Michael Moser was an Austrian mycologist. His work principally concerned the taxonomy, chemistry, and toxicity of the gilled mushrooms (Agaricales), especially those of the genus Cortinarius, and the ecology of ectomycorrhizal relationships. His contributions to the Kleine Kryptogamenflora von Mitteleuropa series of mycological guidebooks were well regarded and widely used. In particular, his 1953 Blätter- und Bauchpilze (Agaricales und Gastromycetes) [The Gilled and Gasteroid Fungi (Agaricales and Gastromycetes)], which became known as simply "Moser", saw several editions in both the original German and in translation. Other important works included a 1960 monograph on the genus Phlegmacium (sometimes considered part of Cortinarius) and a 1975 study of members of Cortinarius, Dermocybe, and Stephanopus in South America, co-authored with the mycologist Egon Horak.
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Barbara Kappel
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- politicianoffice manager
- Biography
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Barbara Kappel is an Austrian politician. From 2010 to 2014 she was a member of the FPÖ in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council. She then moved, initially as a non-attached member, to the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group until she left in June 2019.
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Thomas Wieser
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- economist
- Biography
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Thomas Wieser is an American-Austrian economist working for the European Union. He was the president of Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) of the EU as well as the president of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), both advisory bodies of the Eurogroup, until February 2018.
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Edward O'Rourke
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Edward O'Rourke, full name Eduard Alexander Ladislaus Graf O'Rourke was a Russian-born Roman Catholic priest, bishop of Riga and the first head of the bishopric of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).
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Indra Collini
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1990-1996 graduated with magister degree in business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Indra Collini is an Austrian business economist and politician (NEOS).
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Adrian Fortescue
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- liturgistByzantinisttheologianCatholic priestcomposer
- Biography
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Adrian Henry Timothy Knottesford Fortescue was an English Catholic priest and polymath. An influential liturgist, artist, calligrapher, composer, polyglot, amateur photographer, Byzantine scholar, and adventurer, he was also the founder of the Church of St Hugh of Lincoln in Letchworth.
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Norbert Bischofberger
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- pharmacologistbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Dr. Norbert Bischofberger is an Austrian scientist and one of the inventors of the antiviral drug Tamiflu generically known as oseltamivir, which is, as of 2009, the only oral medication on the market to treat influenza A and B as well as the 2009 Pandemic H1N1 (swine flu), the spread of which caused an ongoing pandemic in 2009. Bischofberger is currently the President & Chief Executive Officer of Kronos Bio, and previously was the Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer at Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in antivirals.
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Nykyta Budka
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- Greek-Catholic priest
- Biography
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Nykyta Budka was a clergyman of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada, he is noted as the first bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, and was the first Eastern Catholic bishop with full jurisdiction ever appointed in the New World.
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Ernst Hairer
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Ernst Hairer is a professor of mathematics at the University of Geneva known for his work in numerical analysis.
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Ivan Hrynokh
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- priestCatholic priestpoliticiantheologian
- Biography
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Ivan Hrynokh was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest and Ukrainian community activist.
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Markus Gasser
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- literary scholarwriterliterary critic
- Biography
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Markus Gasser is an Austrian literary scholar and author.
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Otto Stolz
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Otto Stolz was an Austrian mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals. Born in Hall in Tirol, he studied at the University of Innsbruck from 1860 and the University of Vienna from 1863, receiving his habilitation there in 1867. Two years later he studied in Berlin under Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Kummer and Leopold Kronecker, and in 1871 heard lectures in Göttingen by Alfred Clebsch and Felix Klein (with whom he would later correspond), before returning to Innsbruck permanently as a professor of mathematics.
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Lambert Ehrlich
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- ethnologistpoliticianCatholic priesttheologianprofessor
- Biography
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Lambert Ehrlich was a Carinthian Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist.
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Selma Yıldırım
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Selma Yildirim is an Austrian politician who is a member of the National Council and deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).
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Ernst Lecher
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- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Ernst Lecher was an Austrian physicist who, from 1909, was head of the First Institute of Physics in Vienna. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— "Lecher lines"—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. He gave his name to the Ernst-Lecher-Institut, a radar research establishment set up in the 1940s in Reichenau, south of Vienna, which is now a part of the German research institute Max Planck Institute.
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Wendelin Weingartner
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- politician
- Biography
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Wendelin Weingartner is an Austrian politician who served as the Governor of Tyrol from 1993 to 2002. He studied law at the University of Innsbruck, and was the Chairman of the Landes-Hypothekenbank Steiermark in 1984.
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Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishoppriest
- Biography
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Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim was an Austrian-Italian Roman Catholic prelate and the Bishop of Trent from 1834 until his death. He was born to Austrians but was considered to be an Austro-Italian due to having been born in the Italian town of Bolzano.
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Renate Gebhard
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Renate Gebhard is an Italian jurist and politician of South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). She is a current member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
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Martin Purtscher
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1948-1953 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
- Occupations
- politicianmanager
- Biography
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Martin Purtscher was an Austrian politician. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he served as Governor of Vorarlberg from 1987 to 1997 and served in the Landtag of Vorarlberg from 1964 to 1997.
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James Edward Quigley
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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James Edward Quigley was a Canadian-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in New York (1897–1903) and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois (1903–1915).
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Peter Assmann
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- painterart historianwriter
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Peter Assmann is an Austrian art historian, curator, writer and visual arts creator.
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Jakša Račić
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- physicianpolitician
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Jakša Račić was the Mayor of Split between February 1929 and June 1933. An ethnic Croat in modern terms, he was a supporter of King Alexander I's unitarianist policies, and considered himself a Yugoslav and a Dalmatian. He was a medical doctor by profession and one of the few non-Serbian members of the Chetnik movement.
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Ferenc Cserháti
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Ferenc Cserháti was a Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate. He was auxiliary bishop of Esztergom–Budapest from 2007 to 2023.
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Beda Weber
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- politicianpoet
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Johann Chrysanth "Beda" Weber was a German Benedictine professor, author, and member of the Frankfurt Parliament.
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Herbert Sausgruber
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1965-1970 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
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- politician
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Herbert Sausgruber was governor of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and chairman of the Vorarlberg ÖVP.
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Josef Hoop
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- politicianstatesperson
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Franz Josef Hoop was a diplomat and political figure from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1928 to 1945.
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Wolfgang Dietrich
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- juristhistorianuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
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Wolfgang Dietrich is an Austrian peace researcher and political scientist.
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Anton Trstenjak
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- theologianCatholic priestpsychologistanthropologistphilosopher
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Anton Trstenjak was Slovene psychologist, theologian, and author. He is notable as a pioneer of Slovenian clinical psychology and was practicing his own Logotherapy-inspired psychotherapy. As author he wrote books in specific areas of applied psychology such as ecological psychology, pastoral psychology, psychology of work and organization, and his overview of the field of psychology in general.
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Oskar Peterlini
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- politician
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Oskar Peterlini is an Italian political writer and Lecturer at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano.
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August Thienemann
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- biologistuniversity teacherecologistlimnologistzoologist
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August Friedrich Thienemann was a German limnologist, zoologist and ecologist. He studied zoology at the University of Greifswald.
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Siegfried Gasser
- Enrolled in the University of Innsbruck
- 1960-1966 graduated with economist in general economics
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- politician
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Siegfried Gasser was an Austrian politician. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he served as governor of Vorarlberg from 1984 to 1990. He died on 2 May 2022 at the age of 80.
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Iris Rauskala
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- economistpoliticiancivil servant
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Iris Eliisa Rauskala is a Finnish-born Austrian civil servant and economist who served as Minister of Education, Science and Research in the Bierlein government.
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Victor von Ebner
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- university teacheranatomist
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Anton Gilbert Victor von Ebner, Ritter von Rofenstein was an Austrian anatomist and histologist.
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Bernd Michael Rode
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Bernd Michael Rode was an Austrian professor of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and founder of the Austrian-South-East-Asian Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET). Prof. Rode retired in 2011 but remained actively involved in teaching and research as well as in the thesis supervision.
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George Francis Bornemissza
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- zoologistentomologistecologist
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George Francis Bornemissza was a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1950. At the end of that year, he emigrated to Australia. There he first worked in the Department of Zoology at the University of Western Australia for 3 years, before pursuing a career with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Bornemissza was known for his work on the Australian Dung Beetle Project (1965–1985) while working at CSIRO's Division of Entomology. He wrote scientific papers and books based on his research and contributed a collection of mounted beetle specimens to the Australian National Insect Collection and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. In 2001 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to Australian entomology.
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Volodymyr Hrutsa
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- Catholic priestGreek-Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Titular Bishop of Bahanna and Auxiliary bishop of Lviv since 14 January 2016.
