60 Notable alumni of
University of Salzburg
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The University of Salzburg is 847th in the world, 296th in Europe, and 8th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from the University of Salzburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- Occupations
- regent
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Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein is the eldest son of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Countess Marie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, and the heir apparent to the throne of Liechtenstein. Alois has been regent of the country since 15 August 2004, while his father remains the official head of state.
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Leopold Mozart
- Occupations
- music educatorpedagoguemusiciancomposerviolinist
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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756).
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Ivan Illich
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- Catholic priestsociologisthistoriantheologianpedagogue
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Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality of life by overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."
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Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein
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- chief executive officer
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Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg, known professionally as Max von Liechtenstein, is a Liechtensteiner prince and businessman. He is the second son of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife, Countess Marie Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau.
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Karoline Edtstadler
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- Studied in 1999-2004
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianjurist
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Karoline Edtstadler is an Austrian lawyer and politician who has served as minister for the EU and the Constitution at the Austrian Chancellery in the governments of Chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg and Karl Nehammer since 2020. A member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), she previously served as a State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior from 2017 to 2019 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 until 2020.
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Wolf Haas
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- In 1979 studied German studies
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterchildren's writernovelist
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Wolf Haas is an Austrian writer. He is most widely known for his crime fiction novels featuring detective Simon Brenner, four of which were made into films. He has won several prizes for his works, including the German prize for crime fiction (Deutscher Krimipreis).
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Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- 1992-1997 graduated with magister degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- chairperson
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Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein, known professionally as Constantin Liechtenstein, was a member of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, and a businessman. He was the third son of Prince Hans-Adam II and his wife, Countess Marie Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. He was the chief executive officer of the LGT Group from 2020 to 2023.
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Tobias Regner
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- singer
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Tobias Regner is a German singer and guitarist who has enjoyed success in the rock music genre. He made his debut under major label Sony BMG Domestic after he won the highly publicized third season of the television series Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol, in 2006.
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Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
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- journalisteditor-in-chief
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Alexandra Föderl-Schmid is an Austrian journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Prokop Diviš
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- inventorphysicistnaturalistCatholic priesttheologian
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Prokop Diviš O.Praem. was a Czech canon regular, theologian and natural scientist. In an attempt to prevent thunderstorms from occurring, he inadvertently constructed one of the first grounded lightning rods.
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Sophie Karmasin
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- politician
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Sophie Karmasin is an opinion researcher who was Minister for Families and Youth of Austria for four years.
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Benita Ferrero-Waldner
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- politiciandiplomatjurist
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Benita Ferrero-Waldner is an Austrian diplomat and politician, and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Ferrero-Waldner served as Foreign Minister of Austria 2000–2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the 2004 Austrian presidential election, which she narrowly lost with 47.6% of the votes. She served as the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2004 to 2009, and as the European Commissioner for Trade and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2009 to 2010.
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Marco Kreuzpaintner
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Marco Johann Kreuzpaintner is a German film director, screenwriter, showrunner and executive producer. He is known for his gay coming-of-age feature film Summer Storm, the critical acclaimed Netflix series Bodies, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning series The Lazarus Project and his Amazon Prime series Beat which won him Germany's prestigious Grimme Preis. His fantasy film Krabat starring Daniel Brühl and David Kross and the screen adaptation of the Ferdinand von Schirach novel The Collini Case starring Elyas M'Barek, Alexandra Maria Lara and Franco Nero were box office hits in their original territory Germany. Kreuzpaintner's U.S. feature film Trade, starring Kevin Kline, is a story about human trafficking. It was the first film to premiere at the United Nations on invitation of former U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. The film played a key to finally passing a law against sex trafficking role in the state of New York.
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Peter Kohlgraf
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- philosopherCatholic bishopCatholic priestuniversity teacherChristian theologian
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Peter Kohlgraf is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Mainz since 2017.
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Helena Adler
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- painterpedagoguewriternovelistart educator
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Helena Este Adler was an Austrian writer and visual artist.
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Ernst Strasser
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- politician
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Ernst Strasser is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician and former Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000–2004), Member of the European Parliament (2009–2011) and bearer of the "Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash". Since 2014, he works as an Entrepreneur in the Mergers and acquisitions sector and is also a hotel owner.
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Patrick S. Ryder
- Occupations
- spokesperson
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Patrick S. Ryder is an American military officer and United States Air Force major general who served as the Pentagon Press Secretary, appointed August 4, 2022.
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Erwin Kräutler
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- theologianwriterCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Erwin Kräutler C.Pp.S. is a Roman Catholic bishop who headed the Territorial Prelature of Xingu from 1981 until 2015.
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Erich Hackl
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- translatorwriter
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Erich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 25 languages though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably Sara und Simón, bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists.
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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
- Occupations
- jurist
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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He conducts research into the network economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (HMH, 2013) and author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2009), which won the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book and the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics, and has written over a hundred articles and book chapters. He is a member of Germany's Digital Council, advising Angela Merkel and her cabinet.
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Teresa Präauer
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- writerpainterillustrator
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Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.
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Sigismund von Neukomm
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- composerpianistconductor
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Sigismund Neukomm or Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm [after ennoblement as a knight] was an Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. He was a transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic periods of music.
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Angelika Mlinar
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- lawyerpolitician
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Angelika Rosa Mlinar is an Austrian and Slovenian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2019. She is a member of NEOS – The New Austria, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She belongs to the minority of Carinthian Slovenes. She is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
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Gabi Burgstaller
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- politician
- Biography
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Gabi Burgstaller is an Austrian politician, and the former governor (Landeshauptfrau) of the federal state of Salzburg.
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Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal
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- civil servant
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Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal served as the Under-Secretary-General for Public Information at the United Nations from August 2012 to January 2015, succeeding Kiyotaka Akasaka. He is also the United Nations Coordinator for Multilingualism, a position in which he coordinates the issue of multilingualism throughout the UN Secretariat.
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Anna Berreiter
- Occupations
- lugermilitary athlete
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Anna Berreiter is a German luger. She is the 2023 World and European Champion and silver medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics. A two-time Under-23 World Champion, Berreiter was also part of the German squad that took the World team relay title in 2023 and has won further 1 silver and 1 bronze medals in sprint discipline at the World Championships level. She is the youngest woman to win a Luge World Cup race, and so far, has won 5 individual races in her World Cup career.
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Paul Mayer
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
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Paul Augustin Mayer, OSB was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He held various positions in the Roman Curia from 1971 to 1991.
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Andreas Maislinger
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- political scientistuniversity teacherwriterpeace activisthistorian
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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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Bärbel Kofler
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- politicianbank tellerliterary editor
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Bärbel Kofler is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2004.
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Gabriela Moser
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- politicianlibrarianteacher
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Gabriela Moser was an Austrian politician who was a member of the National Council for more than 20 years.
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Kathrin Röggla
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- In 1989 studied science of journalism and German studies
- Occupations
- playwrightradio playwrightopinion journalistuniversity teacherwriter
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Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg and lives in Berlin since 1992 but moved to Cologne in 2020. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, as well as dramas and radio plays. For her literary works, she has won a wide range of awards.
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Heinz Schaden
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- politician
- Biography
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Heinz Schaden is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and was the mayor of Salzburg from 1999 to 2017.
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Wolfgang Eder
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- manager
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Wolfgang Eder is an Austrian businessman who has been serving as chairman and chief executive officer of Voestalpine AG since 2014.
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Anna Mitgutsch
- Occupations
- university teacherwritertranslatorliterary critic
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Anna Mitgutsch is an Austrian writer and educator. Her name also appears as Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch.
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Gerhart Holzinger
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- 1968-1972 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
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- judgeuniversity teacherjurist
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Gerhart Holzinger is an Austrian jurist, educator, and career civil servant. He was appointed to the Austrian Constitutional Court in 1995, serving as its president from 2008 until his retirement in 2017.
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Evelyn Regner
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- politician
- Biography
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Evelyn Regner is an Austrian lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament from Austria since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and elected vice-president of the European Parliament.
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Jeff Gorell
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- politicianmilitary officerlawyer
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Jeffrey Frederick Gorell, a Republican politician from California, is currently a member of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, having been elected to the County Board, 2nd District, in 2022. In 2010, Gorell was elected to the State Legislature to serve as Assembly Member for the 37th Assembly District in California, representing most of Ventura County. After the decennial redistricting in 2011, Gorell was re-elected to represent the new 44th Assembly District and served as Vice-Chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee. In 2014, Gorell was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 26th congressional district. Gorell is also the former Deputy Mayor of the City of Los Angeles for Homeland Security and Public Safety. Gorell, a Navy Reserve officer, is notable for being the first California legislator called to active duty since World War II. During his deployment, fourteen bills were sponsored in his name.
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Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck
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- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
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Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck was an Austrian Cardinal and the archbishop of Milan from 1816 to 1846. He also held the title of Graf or Count.
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Franz Schausberger
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- historianpolitician
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Franz Schausberger is an Austrian politician (ÖVP) and historian. From 24 April 1996 to 28 April 2004 he was Landeshauptmann (governor) of Salzburg.
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Geminiano Montanari
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- astronomeruniversity teachermathematician
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Geminiano Montanari was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science. He was a member of various learned academies, notably the Accademia dei Gelati. Montanari's famous students include Domenico Guglielmini, Francesco Bianchini, Gianantonio Davia and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili.
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Peter Simons
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- philosopher
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Peter Murray Simons, FBA is a British retired philosopher and academic. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin; he is now professor emeritus. He is known for his work with Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy. Since 2018 he is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.
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Adam Frederick of Seinsheim
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- In 1724 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
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Adam Friedrich Graf von Seinsheim was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1755 to 1779 and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1757 to 1779.
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Jeffrey Gedmin
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- television producermagazine writerauthorjournalist
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Jeffrey Gedmin is an American scholar and author. He is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. He was president and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London from 2011 to 2014 and the former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2007 to 2011.
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Rene Pranz
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- fencer
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René Pranz is an Austrian fencer, specialising in the foil, who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Hannes Leitgeb
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- philosopheruniversity teachermathematician
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Hannes Leitgeb is an Austrian philosopher and mathematician. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has received a Humboldt Professorship in 2010. His areas of research include logic (theories of truth and modality, paradox, conditionals, nonmonotonic reasoning, dynamic doxastic logic), epistemology (belief, inference, belief revision, foundations of probability, Bayesianism), philosophy of mathematics (structuralism, informal provability, abstraction, criteria of identity), philosophy of language (indeterminacy of translation, compositionality), cognitive science (symbolic representation and neural networks, metacognition), philosophy of science (empirical content, measurement theory), and history of philosophy (logical positivism, Carnap, Quine).
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Johannes Katschthaler
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- Catholic theologianpoliticianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Johannes Baptist Katschthaler was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1900 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1903.
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Friedrich Stadler
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- philosopherhistorian of scienceuniversity teacher
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Friedrich Stadler is an Austrian historian and philosopher and professor for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. He is the founder (in 1991) and long-time director of the Institute Vienna Circle, which was established as a Department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education of the Vienna University in May 2011. Currently he is a permanent fellow of this department and serves at the same time as the Director of the co-operating Vienna Circle Society, which is the continuation of the former Institute Vienna Circle as an extra-university institution.
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Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb is an Austrian mathematician who works in image processing and partial differential equations. She is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the book Partial Differential Equation Methods for Image Inpainting (Cambridge University Press, 2015), on methods for using the solutions to partial differential equations to fill in gaps in digital images.
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Andreas Kiefer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andreas Kiefer is an Austrian politician. Since 2010, he is Secretary General of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, an institution representing local and regional authorities of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
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Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- Studied in 1723-1726
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Wilhelm Anton Freiherr von der Asseburg was a German clergyman and Prince-Bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn. He was ordained in 1763 and appointed bishop in 1763.
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Karoline Graswander-Hainz
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- politician
- Biography
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Karoline Graswander-Hainz is an Austrian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2015 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Johann Franz Bessel
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- judgeuniversity teacherhistorian
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Johann Franz Bessel was a German Benedictine abbot and historian.
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Marie-Louise Nosch
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- historianarchaeologistacademic
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Marie-Louise Bech Nosch is a Professor in the University of Copenhagen and an expert in the interdisciplinary study of prehistoric textiles. Her main research focus is on the evidence for textile production in Mycenaean Greece provided by the Linear B tablets; she has also published widely on the cross-cultural study of textiles from across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
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Wolfgang Gratzer
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- musicologistuniversity teacher
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Wolfgang Gratzer is an Austrian musicologist.
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Johann Egger
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- entomologist
- Biography
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Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger, was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
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Mor Antheemos Mathews
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Anthimos Mathews is a Syriac Orthodox bishop, currently Metropolitan of Muvattupuzha Region and Patriarchal Vicar of U.K. & Ireland Dioceses.
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Alexander Picker
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Enrolled in the University of Salzburg
- 1982-1989 studied law
- Biography
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Alexander Picker is an International banker that is currently the CEO of Komercijalna banka AD Beograd.
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Bettina Bäumer
- Occupations
- academic
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Bettina Sharada Bäumer is an Austrian-born Indian scholar of religion. Bäumer has been described by Vandana Parthasarathy, writing in The Hindu, as a "renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism and a well-known figure in the field of inter-religious dialogue". She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art by Government of Austria in 2012 and Padma Shri by Government of India in 2015 for her contribution to Literature and Education. She was awarded the Ulrich Winkler Award for Comparative Theology and Study of Religions in 2023.
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Andreas Kornhuber
- Occupations
- university teacherpaleontologistbotanist
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(Georg) Andreas von Kornhuber (2 August 1824, Kematen, Oberösterreich – 21 April 1905, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and paleontologist.
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Alegria Ferrer
- Occupations
- stage actorsingeracademic
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Alegria Ocampo Ferrer is a Filipina soprano, professor, theater actress and a musical director who is awarded an Aliw Awards Hall of Fame in the category of Female Classical and included in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of the Arts. The Aliw Awards is given to recognize excellence in Filipino talents. The CCP Encyclopedia of the Arts contains information about culture and the arts in the Philippines.
