Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (German: Franz Joseph I., Hungarian: I. Ferenc József, Croatian: Franjo Josip I., Czech: František Josef I., Slovene: Franc Jožef I., Romanian: Franț Iosif 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. From 1 May 1850 until 24 August 1866 he was President of the German Confederation.

In December 1848, Emperor Ferdinand abdicated the throne as part of Ministerpräsident Felix zu Schwarzenberg's plan to end the Revolutions of 1848 in Austria, which allowed Ferdinand's nephew Franz Joseph to ascend to the throne. The event took place in the Moravian city of Olomouc. Largely considered to be a reactionary, Franz Joseph spent his early reign resisting constitutionalism in his domains. The Austrian Empire was forced to cede most of its claim to Lombardy–Venetia to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia following the conclusion of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, and the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866. Although Franz Joseph ceded no territory to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, the Peace of Prague (23 August 1866) settled the German question in favour of Prussia, which prevented the unification of Germany under the House of Habsburg (Großdeutsche Lösung).

Franz Joseph (disambiguation)

Franz Josef or Franz Joseph may refer to:

  • Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and King of Bohemia
  • Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726–1781), Knight of the Golden Fleece
  • Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989), Knight of the Golden Fleece
  • Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (1891–1964), Nazi party member and SS officer
  • Franz Joseph (artist) (1914–1994), artist and author loosely associated with Star Trek
  • Franz Joseph Antony (1790–1837), choral composer
  • Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist
  • Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), sculptor and stuccoist
  • Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), neuroanatomist and physiologist
  • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), composer
  • Franz Joseph Molitor (1779–1860), German writer and philosopher
  • Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740–1825), Hungarian mineralogist
  • Franz Josef Strauß (1915–1988), German politician
  • Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer
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