Robert Musil

Robert Musil

male, deceased (1942)
Roman Catholic, novelist, writer, World War I, Austrian, modernist…austro-hungarian empire, Austro-Hungarian Army
Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria - April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel "The...
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

male, deceased (1886)
pianist, Romantic music, virtuoso, Piano Concerto, lied, romantic…hungarian, Hungarian classical organist, austro-hungarian empire, Hungarian Rhapsodies
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th...
Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche

male, deceased (1951)
inventor, International Motorsports Hall of Fame, Austrian, Automotive pioneer, Automobile designer, Elefant…austro-hungarian empire, Austro-Hungarian
Prof. Dr. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer. Porsche was born in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Bohemia, which is now part of the...
Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz

male, deceased (1942)
assimiliated, Jewish assimilation, death by firearm in Ukraine, Holocaust victim, murdered, polish…austro-hungarian empire
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 - November 19, 1942) was a Polish novelist and painter, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose...
Josef Hoffmann

Josef Hoffmann

male, deceased (1956)
Austrian, Art Nouveau, architect, Gesamtkunstwerk, brussels, Palais Stoclet…austro-hungarian empire
Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. He studied with Otto Wagner. He played a major part in the shaping of the...

Mátyás Rákosi

male, deceased (1971)
dictator, expatriate, Jewish, hungarian, communist, stalin…austro-hungarian empire, Austro-Hungarian Army, Hungarian revolution of 1956, Hungarian Communist Party, Hungarian Workers Party
Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian dictator and the leader of Hungary from 1945 to 1956 through his post as General Secretary of the Hungarian Com...
Otto Preminger

Otto Preminger

male, deceased (1986)
actor, buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, oscar, Austrian, film actor, director…austro-hungarian empire
Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 - April 23, 1986) was an Austrian actor and twice Oscar-nominated film director. Preminger was born in...
Siegfried Marcus

Siegfried Marcus

male, deceased (1898)
from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, engine, moravia, ignition, lighting, voltage…austro-hungarian empire
Siegfried Samuel Marcus (Malchin, Mecklenburg, Germany September 18, 1831 - July 1, 1898 in Vienna) was a German but most of his time living in...
Mile Budak

Mile Budak

male, deceased (1945)
Roman Catholic, writer, croatian, fascist, World War I, albania…austro-hungarian empire, Austro-Hungarian Army
Mile Budak was a Croatian polititian and writer, best known as one of the chief ideologists of the clero-fascist Ustaše movement, which ruled i...

Franz Künstler

male, 109 years old
Centenarian, Niederstetten, Military personnel of World War II, Baden-Württemberg, the First World War, Ethnic German…austro-hungarian empire, hungarian
Franz Künstler is the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He joined the A...