Book Description
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 1997-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871136657
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Author : John Van der Kiste
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750937870
In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century.
Author : Anatol Murad
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jean-Paul Bled
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631167785
Author : Karen Owens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0786476745
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph's reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.
Author : Katrin Unterreiner
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Emperors
ISBN :
Author : Stanley Finger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190464623
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a remarkable visionary, his seminal ideas would become tenets of modern behavioral neuroscience. Among other things, he was the first scientist to promote publicly the idea of specialized cortical areas for diverse higher functions, while taking metaphysics out of his new science of mind. Moreover, although he obviously placed too much emphasis on "tell-tale" skull features (mistakenly believing that the cranium faithfully reflects the features of underlying brain areas), he fully understood the strength of "convergent operations," conducting neuroanatomical, developmental, cross-species, gender-comparison, and brain-damage studies on both humans and animals in his attempts to unravel the mysteries of brain organization. Rather than looking upon Gall's "organology" as one of science's great mistakes, this book provides a fresh look at the man and his doctrine. The authors delve into his motives, what was known about the brain during the 1790s, and the cultural demands of his time. Gall is rightfully presented as an early-19th-century biologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and physician with an inquisitive mind and a challenging agenda--namely, how to account for species and individual differences in behavior. In this well-researched book, readers learn why, starting as a young physician in Vienna and continuing his life's work in Paris, he chose to study the mind and the brain, why he employed his various methods, why he relied so heavily on cranial features, and why he wrote what he did in his books. Frequently using Gall's own words, they show his impact in various domains, including his approach to the insane and criminals, before concluding with his final illness and more lasting legacy.
Author : Katrin Unterreiner
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9783850338943
Author : Joseph Redlich
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447496531
The life of Emperor Francis Joseph can only be understood in close connection with the political transformation of Europe and the progressive shift in world power that went on during the century between the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles. It is from that standpoint that it is here written. At the same time the specific content of this description is his human and political personality. On no other terms can any bounds be set or any form given to the vast mass of interconnected historical events covered by the period of Francis Joseph’s life and reign. Since, however, whether as man or ruler, he falls far short of being an embodiment of human greatness, it is in a somewhat limited sense only that he fills the conception of a historic personality. So comprehensive, on the other hand, is the range of countries and peoples over whom he reigned; so extensive is the period of his governance; so mighty and multifarious are the European issues influenced, and deeply influenced, by his action and his character, that, judged by the test of influence on great events, he must be said to have counted for more than any other European monarch of the nineteenth century. Compared with his, the singular and momentous career of Napoleon III is but an entr’acte in Europe. Guardian of an ancient line, inheritor and defender of rights that date far back into medieval times, natural foe of the modern struggle to transform Europe into a series of closed national states, Francis Joseph assumed and maintained for sixty years a position in the Europe that the war destroyed to which that of no other sovereign affords an analogue. What makes him all the more impressive is that there was in him, as in no other European monarch of the past century, a perfect correspondence between the man and his work. To Francis Joseph and to the Empire that came to an end in 1918 the saying certainly applies which is the veritable title deed of biographical history—History is made by men. Even in a period preoccupied as is our own with research into the development and function of ideas and of institutions, economic, social and political, history cannot omit personality, since it is the instrument through which the will of a nation or a state has to be exercised. Least of all can this be done where, as with Francis Joseph, the idea of the ruler overpowers that of the man and makes his personal individuality its servant.
Author : Franz Joseph I (Emperor of Austria)
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :