As Richard Bassett’s superb book For God and Kaiser shows, Austria’s army expressed the idea that dynastic, cultural and economic relations were more important than national identity. Richard Bassett, ...
Carousel Sleigh (c. 1740/50) attributed to Balthasar Moll, guilded wood, metal, velvet, braids Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) MINNEAPOLIS — “Make love not war,” ...
May 1703. It had been four years since the Peace of Karlowitz ended the Great Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire yielded the ...
Dec. 2 (UPI) --New research suggests prodigious amounts of inbreeding best explains the protruding lower jaw that characterized many of the Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives that made up the ...
From the 13th century till the end of World War I, a Habsburg ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital city. For a couple of centuries, another branch of the family ruled the ...
The powerful family faith story continues in today’s generation. Above, the Habsburgs pose for a family photo in 2018; below, Cardinal József Mindszenty met with Empress Zita in 1972; and a map from ...
The last Habsburg prime minister, Heinrich Lammasch, appointed on 27 October 1918 by Emperor Charles I, served for sixteen days. He was an Austrian jurist and long-term advocate of a league of nations ...
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