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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

1837 - 1898

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Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I of Austria on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was born into the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach but enjoyed an informal upbringing before marrying her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I, at 16. The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and which she found suffocating. The couple had four children: Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf, and Marie Valerie. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Empress Elisabeth of Austria is the most popular companion (up from 2nd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Germany (up from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular German Companion.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria was most famous for being the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, and for her tragic death in 1898.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1 out of 784. After her are Aisha, Nefertiti, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Fatimah, Anne Boleyn, Mumtaz Mahal, Helena, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Catherine de' Medici, Mary of Teck, and Theodora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1. After her are Mary Harris Jones, Alois Hitler, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Grover Cleveland, Fredrik Bajer, Wild Bill Hickok, Mily Balakirev, J. P. Morgan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, and Yohannes IV. Among people deceased in 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1. After her are Otto von Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Boudin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 13 out of 7,253. Before her are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), and Charlemagne (748). After her are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Johannes Kepler (1571), George Frideric Handel (1685), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Otto von Bismarck (1815), and Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ranks 1. After her are Eva Braun (1912), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Magda Goebbels (1901), Anne of Cleves (1515), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Katharina von Bora (1498), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868).

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