100 Notable alumni of
Vienna University of Technology
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The Vienna University of Technology is 485th in the world, 178th in Europe, and 6th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Vienna University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rudolf Steiner
- Occupations
- literary criticjewelry designersculptoroccultistediting staff
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by (Christian) Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
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Fritz Lang
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- producerwriterfilm editorfilm screenwriterfilm producer
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Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang ( Austrian German: [ˈfrɪts ˈlaŋ]), was an Austrian-born film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
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Arthur Koestler
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- autobiographernovelistjournalistphilosopherpolitical scientist
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Arthur Koestler CBE was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism.
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Wilhelm Steinitz
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied mathematics
- Occupations
- chess playerchess composerchess theoretician
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William Steinitz was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.
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Milutin Milanković
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1902
- Occupations
- astronomercivil engineerphysicistengineermathematician
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Milutin Milanković was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, university professor, popularizer of science and academic.
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Christian Doppler
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1822-1825
- Occupations
- pedagogueprofessorastronomermathematicianacademic
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Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
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Richard Neutra
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- photographerarchitect
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Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most notable works include the Kaufmann Desert House, in Palm Springs, California.
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Josef Strauss
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- composerconductor
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Josef Luckhardt Strauss was an Austrian composer.
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Ferenc Krausz
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- 1988-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in laser science
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistlaser physicistelectrical engineeruniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian physicist working in attosecond science. He was a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. His research team generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons' motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Since November 2025, he has been Chair Professor at Department of Physics in The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
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Anna Kiesenhofer
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- sport cyclistmathematician
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Anna Kiesenhofer is an Austrian professional cyclist and mathematician, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Roland Le Dévoluy.
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Guglielmo Oberdan
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- activistassassin
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Guglielmo Oberdan was an Italian irredentist. He was executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, becoming a martyr of the Italian unification movement.
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Richard von Mises
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1907
- Occupations
- mathematicianengineerphysicistuniversity teacher
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Richard Martin Edler von Mises was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He described his work in his own words shortly before his death as:
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Heinz von Foerster
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- university teacherphysicistcomputer scientistphilosophermathematician
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Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow (1956–57 and 1963–64) and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980. He is well known for his 1960 Doomsday equation formula published in Science predicting future population growth.
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Eduard Suess
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- politiciangeologistuniversity teacherpaleontologist
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Eduard Suess was an Austrian geologist and a specialist on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed in 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. He also introduced the concepts of eustasy. As a professor of geology at the University of Vienna, he was a founding figure in geology in Austria, influencing numerous geologists across Europe. He was considered the "dean of geology" at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was also an Austrian parliament representative for the liberal party.
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Barbara Stöckl
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- television presenterradio personalityfilm director
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Barbara Stöckl is an Austrian television and radio presenter.
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Julius Raab
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- engineerpolitician
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Julius Raab was a conservative Austrian politician who served as Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence, when he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. In internal politics Raab stood for a pragmatic "social partnership" and the "Grand coalition" of Austrian Conservatives and Social Democrats.
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Khosrow Sinai
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- screenwritercomposerfilm director
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Khosrow Sinai was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, composer, poet and scholar.
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Josef Frank
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1903-1908
- Occupations
- designerarchitectfurniture designer
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Josef Frank was an Austrian and later Swedish, architect, artist, and designer. Together with Oskar Strnad, he created the Vienna School of Architecture, and its concept of Modern houses, housing and interiors. After leaving Austria due to rising antisemitism, Josef Frank started working at Swedish interior design store Svenskt Tenn in 1934, where he became a key figure in shaping the company's design identity. He is today considered one of the most important Swedish designers.
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Camillo Sitte
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- painterarchitectuniversity teacherurban planner
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Camillo Sitte was an Austrian architect, painter and urban theorist whose work influenced urban planning and land use regulation. Today, Sitte is best remembered for his 1889 book The Art of Building Cities, in which he examined and documented the traditional, incremental approach to urbanism in Europe, with a close focus on public spaces in Italy and the Germanic countries.
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Rudolph Schindler
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- architect
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Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Ferdinand Mannlicher
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- military engineerengineerinventorpolitician
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Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher was an Austrian engineer and small arms designer. Along with James Paris Lee, Mannlicher was particularly noted for inventing the en-bloc clip charger-loading box magazine system. Later, while making improvements to other inventors' prototype designs for rotary-feed magazines, Mannlicher, together with his protégé Otto Schönauer, patented a perfected rotary magazine design, the Mannlicher–Schönauer rifle, which was a commercial and military success.
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Fatih Birol
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- economist
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Fatih Birol is a Turkish economist and energy expert, who has served as the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1 September 2015. During his time in charge of the IEA, he has taken a series of steps to modernise the Paris-based international organisation, including strengthening ties with emerging economies like India and China and stepping up work on the clean energy transition and international efforts to reach net zero emissions.
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Herman Potočnik
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- military officermilitary flight engineermechanical engineerengineerinventor
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Herman Potočnik was an Austro-Hungarian Army officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist of Slovenian origin. He is regarded as an early theorist of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space.
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Ottó Bláthy
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1882
- Occupations
- electrical engineerengineerinventorchess composerchess player
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Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo generator, the high-efficiency turbo generator and the motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor.
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Eugen Sänger
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- university teacherengineermilitary flight engineer
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Eugen Sänger was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology.
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
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- inventorphysicistprofessorchemist
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.
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František Gellner
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- illustratorjournalistgraphic artistdramaturgeediting staff
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František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist.
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János Irinyi
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- chemistengineerinventor
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János Irinyi was a Hungarian chemist and inventor of the noiseless and non-explosive match. He achieved this by mixing the yellow (also called white) phosphorus with lead dioxide instead of the potassium chlorate used previously.
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Viktor Kaplan
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- inventoruniversity teacheramateur filmmakerengineerteacher
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Viktor Kaplan was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine.
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Imre Steindl
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- university teacherrestorerarchitect
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Imre Ferenc Károly Steindl was a Hungarian architect.
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Hans Hahn
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- mathematicianphilosopheruniversity teachertopologist
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Hans Hahn was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. In philosophy he was among the main logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.
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Clemens Holzmeister
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- designerteacheruniversity teacherarchitect
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Clemens Holzmeister was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of Judith Holzmeister.
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Gerhard Hanappi
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- architectassociation football player
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Gerhard Hanappi was an Austrian football midfielder who is often regarded as one of the greatest Austrian footballers. He is also the father of political economist Hardy Hanappi.
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Max Fabiani
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- university teacherarchitect
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Maximilian Fabiani, commonly known as Max Fabiani was a Slovenian architect, born in the village of Kobdilj near Štanjel, Austro-Hungary in present-day Slovenia. Together with Ciril Metod Koch and Ivan Vancaš, he introduced the Vienna Secession style of architecture (a type of Art Nouveau) in Slovenia.
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Frederick John Kiesler
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- designerauthorlithographerarchitectwriter
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Frederick Jacob Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.
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Constantin von Economo
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- university teacherneuroscientistpsychiatristaircraft pilotneurologist
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Constantin Freiherr von Economo was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist of Romanian origin. He is mostly known for his discovery of encephalitis lethargica and his atlas of cytoarchitectonics of the cerebral cortex.
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Leopold Vietoris
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1910-1911
- Occupations
- university teachermathematiciantopologist
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Leopold Vietoris was an Austrian mathematician, World War I veteran and supercentenarian. He was born in Radkersburg and died in Innsbruck.
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Franz Sedlacek
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- illustratorpainter
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Franz Sedlacek was an Austrian painter who belonged to the tradition known as "New Objectivity" ("neue Sachlichkeit"), an artistic movement similar to Magical Realism. At the end of the Second World War he "disappeared" as a soldier of the Wehrmacht near Toruń, Poland. He was declared missing on February 1, 1945 and pronounced dead in 1972.
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Paul A. Weiss
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- biologist
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Paul Alfred Weiss was an Austrian biologist who specialised in morphogenesis, development, differentiation and neurobiology. A teacher, experimenter and theorist, he made a lasting contribution to science in his lengthy career, throughout which he sought to encourage specialists in different fields to meet and share insights.
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Arthur Casagrande
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- geotechnical engineergeologistcivil engineer
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Arthur Casagrande was an American civil engineer born in Austria-Hungary who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing apparatus and fundamental research on seepage and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modelled in many universities around the world.
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Milan Vidmar
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- non-fiction writerelectrical engineeruniversity teacherchess playerengineer
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Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
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Nicolae Teclu
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- university teacherchemistarchitect
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Nicolae Teclu; (11 October 1839, Kronstadt, Austrian Empire (today Brașov, Romania) – 13 July 1916, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was a Romanian chemist, who gave his name to the worldwide-used "Teclu burner". He studied engineering and architecture, and then chemistry, continuing his career by becoming professor for general and analytical chemistry in Vienna. He also contributed substantially to the worldwide development of chemistry.
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Alfons Walde
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- painterarchitectposter artist
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Alfons Walde was an Austrian artist and architect.
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Károly Lotz
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1852
- Occupations
- painter
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Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz was a German-Hungarian painter.
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Eduard van der Nüll
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- teacherarchitectprofessor
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Eduard van der Nüll was an Austrian architect, who was one of the great masters in the historicist style of Vienna's Ringstrasse.
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Edmund Rumpler
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1895
- Occupations
- aerospace engineermilitary flight engineerentrepreneurengineerinventor
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Edmund Elias Rumpler was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer.
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Miklós Ybl
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- architect
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Miklós Ybl was one of Europe's leading architects in the mid to late nineteenth century as well as Hungary's most influential architect during his career. His most well-known work is the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest (1875–84).
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Alexander von Krobatin
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- military personnelpedagoguepolitician
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Alexander Freiherr von Krobatin was an Austrian field marshal and Imperial and Royal Minister of War for Austria-Hungary between 1912 and 1917 — for most of World War I.
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Walter Krämer
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- writereconomiststatisticianuniversity teacher
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Walter Krämer is a German economist. He is a professor for economic and social statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund.
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Ferdynand Goetel
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- screenwriteropinion journalistnovelistwriterplaywright
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Ferdynand Goetel was a Polish novelist, playwright, essayist, screen writer, and political activist. He was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature from 1935, president of the Polish PEN Club from 1926–33, and president of the Union of Polish Writers in the interwar Poland. He achieved prominence in Polish literary circles between the wars and was awarded the "Golden Laurel" by the Polish Academy of Literature for his contributions to Polish literature. He was forced to leave Poland after World War II due to his involvement in the German investigation of the Katyn massacre and died in exile in London.
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Hermann Knoflacher
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- scientistuniversity teachertransportation engineerengineercivil engineer
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Hermann Knoflacher is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology.
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Ferdinand Fellner
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- architect
- Biography
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Ferdinand Fellner was an Austrian architect.
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Boris Podrecca
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- university teacherarchitect
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Boris Podrecca is a Slovene-Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism. He took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms with some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute at Starhemberg Palace (1982),
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Roland Rainer
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- university teachercuratorarchitect
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Roland Rainer was an Austrian architect.
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Wilhelm Holzbauer
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- architect
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Wilhelm Holzbauer was an Austrian architect, noted as a "pragmatic" modernist. He was a student of Clemens Holzmeister at the Vienna University of Technology between 1950 and 1953. In 1956–57, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Scholar. From 1977 to 1998, he was professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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József Hild
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- architect
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József Hild was a Hungarian-German architect. One of the major exponents of neoclassical architecture of the time, he played an important part in the remodelling of Pest during the so-called reform era (early 19th century).
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Ingeborg Hochmair
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- inventorscientist
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Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer is an Austrian electrical engineer and the CEO and CTO of hearing implant company MED-EL. Dr Hochmair and her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair co-created the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world. She received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her contributions towards the development of the modern cochlear implant. She also received the 2015 Russ Prize for bioengineering.
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Rudolf Hruska
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- engineer
- Biography
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Rudolf Hruska was an Austrian automobile designer and engineer. He was most famous for his design of various Alfa Romeo cars.
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August Sicard von Sicardsburg
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- teacherarchitectprofessor
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August Sicard von Sicardsburg was an Austrian architect. He is best remembered as the co-architect of the Vienna State Opera, together with Eduard van der Nüll.
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Heinz Zemanek
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- computer scientistuniversity teacher
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Heinz Zemanek was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — Viennese for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.
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Leopold Müller
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineergeologistuniversity teacher
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Leopold Müller was a geologist, one of the pioneers of rock mechanics and one of the main contributors to the development of the new Austrian tunneling method (NATM).
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Nikolai Brashman
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1815
- Occupations
- university teacherpedagoguemathematician
- Biography
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.
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Josef Szombathy
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- archaeologistprehistoriananthropologist
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Josef Szombathy born Szombathy József was an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist; he was present when the Venus of Willendorf was discovered in 1908.
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Gustav Herglotz
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1899-1900
- Occupations
- mathematicianseismologistgeophysicistuniversity teacher
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Gustav Herglotz was a German Bohemian physicist best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology.
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Karl Gölsdorf
- Occupations
- authorlocomotive designerdesignermechanical engineerengineer
- Biography
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Karl Gölsdorf was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer.
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Josef Maria Auchentaller
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1862-1866
- Occupations
- furniture designerpaintergraphic designerjewelry designerdraftsperson
- Biography
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Josef Maria Auchentaller was an Austrian painter, draftsman, and printmaker associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style.
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Antonio Lasciac
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- engineerpoetarchitectmusician
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Antonio Lasciac or Anton Laščak (Slovene) (21 September 1856 – 26 December 1946) was an Italian architect, engineer, poet and musician of Slovene descent, who designed the Khedive's Palace in Istanbul and the Tahra Palace in Cairo.
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Ferdinand Redtenbacher
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- engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ferdinand Jakob Redtenbacher is regarded as the founder of science-based mechanical engineering.
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Hermann Czech
- Occupations
- architectdesigner
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Hermann Czech is an Austrian architect. He was born and lives in Vienna, Austria, where he has a private practice.
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Antoni Wiwulski
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1901
- Occupations
- architectsculptor
- Biography
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Antoni Wiwulski was a Polish-Lithuanian architect and sculptor.
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Leopold Hoesch
- Occupations
- Church masterengineercity councilentrepreneur
- Biography
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Leopold Hoesch was a German entrepreneur. In 1871 he founded the Eisen-und Stahlwerk Hoesch AG, later the Westfalenhütte in Dortmund, Westphalia.
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Lipót Baumhorn
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1883
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Lipót Baumhorn was a Hungarian architect of Jewish heritage, the most influential Hungarian synagogue architect in the first half of the 20th century. He drew blueprints for about 20 synagogues in the Kingdom of Hungary.
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Joseph Ludwig Raabe
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1821-1827
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Joseph Ludwig Raabe was a Swiss mathematician best known for Raabe's ratio test.
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Helmut Rauch
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- In 1966 graduated with Doctor of Natural Sciences
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Helmut Rauch was an Austrian physicist. He was especially known for his pioneering experiments on neutron interference.
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Alexander Meissner
- Occupations
- physicistengineer
- Biography
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Alexander Meissner was an Austrian engineer and physicist. He was born in Vienna and died in Berlin.
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Friedrich Ohmann
- Occupations
- teacherarchitectuniversity teacherurban planner
- Biography
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Friedrich Ohmann was an Austrian architect in the Historicist style.
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Marc Angel
- Occupations
- translatorpolitician
- Biography
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Marc Angel is a Luxembourgish politician of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019 and was one of its vice presidents from 2023 to 2024.. In the European Parliament he is known for being a "Champion of Equality".
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Josef Maria Eder
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistphotographer
- Biography
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Josef Maria Eder was an Austrian chemist who specialized in the chemistry of photography, and who wrote a comprehensive early history of the technical development of chemical photography.
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Richard Mattessich
- Years
- 1922-2019 (aged 97)
- Occupations
- university teacherclassical economicsbookkeeper
- Biography
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Richard Victor Alvarus Mattessich was an Austrian-Canadian business economist and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, known for introducing the concept of electronic spreadsheets into the field of business accounting in 1961, as well as pioneering analytical and philosophical methods in accounting.
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Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
- Occupations
- seismologistuniversity teachergeologistvolcanologist
- Biography
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Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology. He is known for his work on these subjects and the geology of Indonesia.
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Béla Gerster
- Occupations
- hydraulic engineerarchitect
- Biography
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Béla Gerster, also known by his Slovak name as Vojtech Mikuláš Gerster, was a Hungarian engineer and canal architect. He took part in an early expedition to determine the route of the Panama Canal, and was the chief engineer of the Corinth Canal.
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Georg Gottlob
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Georg Gottlob FRS is an Austrian-Italian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence and is Professor of Informatics at the University of Calabria. He was Professor at the University of Oxford.
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Stanisław Szczepanowski
- Occupations
- economistengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Stanisław Szczepanowski was a Polish economist, engineer, businessman, and politician. Deputy to parliaments of Austria and Galicia.
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Leopold Eidlitz
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Leopold Eidlitz was an American architect of Czech-Jewish origin. He was based in the New York state. He is best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876–1881), as well as for major 19th-century commissions including "Iranistan" (1848), P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich (1856); St. Peter’s Church in the Bronx (1853); the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1861, destroyed by fire in 1903); the former Temple Emanu-El (1866–68, destroyed 1927); the Broadway Tabernacle (1859, demolished c. 1907); the completion of the Tweed Courthouse (1876–81); and the West-Park Presbyterian Chapel on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
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Ivan Vurnik
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ivan Vurnik was a Slovene architect that helped found the Ljubljana School of Architecture. His early style in the 1920s is associated with the search for Slovene "National Style", inspired by Slovene folk art and the Vienna Secession style of architecture (a type of Art Nouveau). Upon embracing the functionalist approach in the 1930s, Vurnik rivaled the more conservative Plečnik's approach. The Cooperative Business Bank, designed by Vurnik and his wife Helena Kottler Vurnik, who designed the decorative facade in the hues of the Slovene tricolor, has been called the most beautiful building in Ljubljana. Vurnik also created a number of urban plans, among these the plans for Bled (1930), Kranj (1933–1937), and Ljubljana (1935).
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Josef Melan
- Occupations
- architectcivil engineer
- Biography
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Josef Melan was an Austrian engineer. He is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of reinforced concrete bridge-building at the end of the 19th century. Josef Melan is credited as the inventor of the Melan System, a method for the construction of reinforced bridges. The Melan System differed from previous reinforced bridges because Melan did not build iron bars into the reinforced concrete bridge structure, but used rigid truss arches made of iron. Melan became famous in 1898 after building a 42.4 m bridge with a very shallow arch in Steyr. At that time, this was the largest reinforced concrete bridge in the world. He also built the Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana.
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Wilhelm Exner
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- university teacherengineerpolitician
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Wilhelm Franz Exner was former president of the Austrian Business Association and initiator of the Wilhelm Exner Medal.
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Dietmar Eberle
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- university teacherarchitect
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Dietmar Eberle is an Austrian architect. Winner of over 150 national and international competitions, he has been a teacher in several universities in North America and Europe. Since 1999 he has been Professor at the ETH Zurich, becoming the Dean of the School of Architecture within the same university between 2003 and 2005. He has also been header of the Center of Housing and Sustainable Urban Development at the ETH Zurich.
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Monika Vana
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- politician
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Monika Vana is an Austrian politician of The Greens-The Green Alternative, part of Parliamentary Group the European Green Party. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament.
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Friedrich Schey von Koromla
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- bankerpatron of the arts
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Friedrich Schey Freiherr von Koromla was an Austrian banker. Around 1863, he built Palais Schey von Koromla in Vienna, Austria.
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Erwin Hochmair
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- university teacherengineerentrepreneur
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Erwin Hochmair is an Austrian electrical engineer whose research focuses in the fields of biomedical engineering and cochlear implant design. He has been a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck since 1986. He has authored and co-authored over 100 technical articles and holds about 50 patents. He is the co-founder and owner of the medical device company MED-EL.
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Jan Zawiejski
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- restorerarchitect
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Jan Zawiejski, born Jan Baptysta Feintuch, was a Polish architect from an assimilated Polish-Jewish family, a representative of the 19th-century historicism advocating for a return to classical design of the past.
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Adolf Krischanitz
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- university teacherarchitect
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Adolf Krischanitz is an Austrian-born architect.
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Wilhelm Stiassny
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- architect
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Wilhelm Stiassny was a Jewish Austrian architect.
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Oskar Strnad
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1900-1903
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- architectdirectorscenographerdesignercostume designer
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Oskar Strnad was an Austrian architect, sculptor, designer and set designer for films and theatres. Together with Josef Frank he was instrumental in creating the distinctive character of the Wiener Schule der Architektur ("Vienna School of Architecture"). He stood for a modern concept of "living" for all people, planned and built private dwelling-houses, designed furniture, created ceramics and watercolours and designed sets and props for stage plays and films.
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Ladislaus von Rabcewicz
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- university teachercivil engineer
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Ladislaus von Rabcewicz was an Austrian engineer and university professor at the Vienna University of Technology. He is notable for being one of three men who developed the new Austrian tunneling method (NATM).
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Siegfried Selberherr
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1981
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- university teacherengineerphysicist
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Siegfried Selberherr is an Austrian scientist in the field of microelectronics. He is a professor at the Institute for Microelectronics of the Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien). His primary research interest is in modeling and simulation of physical phenomena in the field of microelectronics.
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Oskar Marmorek
- Enrolled in the Vienna University of Technology
- Studied in 1880-1887
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- architectmaster builder
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Oskar Adolf Marmorek was a Galician-born Austro-Hungarian architect and Zionist.
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Robert Trappl
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- university teacherpsychologistcyberneticist
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Robert Trappl is an Austrian scientist and head of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna, which was founded in 1984. He is known for his work in the field of cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
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Max Herz
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- architectart historian
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Max Herz (born as Herz Miksa (19 May 1856 – 5 May 1919) was a Hungarian architect, conservator, museum director and architectural historian, active in Egypt.
