Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in
1749 in Frankfurt. From 1765 to 1771 he studied law in Leibzig
and Strasbourg on request of his father. During his time at
university he already earned recognition with his poems and
lyric.
Sissi
was born as daughter of Duke Maximilian and Duchess Ludovika
in Bavaria. In 1853 she got to know her cousin Emporer Franz
Joseph, who was going to marry Sissi's sister Helene.
In
1965 the 20th Century Fox released a musical film written by
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, directed by Robert Wise
which ought to become a promotional tourism film for Austria,
The Sound Of Music
Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia and at
the age of 5 years his family moved to Vienna. As a student
he always was ahead of his class in school and so he had no
problem to enrol to medical school.
Ingeborg Bachmann
was born in Carinthia and studied philosophy, psychology and
German at the Universities of Innsbruck, Linz and Vienna from
1945-50, when she earned a doctorate in philosophy.
Personalities
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947- )
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born as the son
of a policeman in Graz. Because he wanted to get into the local
soccer team, he started to workout. Already at this time was
his destiny to obtain a perfect body and muscles.
Swarovski is an Austrian success stories
par excellence. At the end of the 19th century Daniel Swarovski
founded a company with the aim to grind crystals automatically
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