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Fred F. Herzog – only Jewish judge in Austria between the world wars, he fled to America and became Dean of two different law schools; Raul Hillberg – political scientist and historian, who is widely considered to be one of the world's preeminent scholars of the Holocaust; Hans Kelsen – jurist [42]
Between 1815 and 1930, 60 million Europeans emigrated, of which 71% went to North America, 21% to Latin America, and 7% to Australia. [1] This mass immigration had as a backdrop economic and social problems in the Old World , allied to structural changes that facilitated the migratory movement between the two continents.
The Archduchy of Austria never held any colonies in the Americas. Nevertheless, a few Austrians did settle in what would become the United States prior to the 19th Century, including a group of fifty families from Salzburg, exiled for being Lutherans in a predominantly Catholic state, who established their own community in Ebenezer, Georgia in 1734.
Relentless population expansion pushed the U.S. frontier to the Pacific by 1848. Most immigrants came long distances to settle in the United States. However, many Irish left Canada for the United States in the 1840s. French Canadians, who moved south from Quebec after 1860, and Mexicans, who came north after 1911, found it easier to move back ...
Australian Americans are Americans who have Australian ancestry. [2] The first Australian Americans were settlers in Australia who then moved on to America. This group included English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish settlers in Australia who then moved to California during the Gold Rush.
Those who emigrated from 1867-1918 should be in the category Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States. Those who emigrated before 1867 should be in the category Category:Emigrants from the Austrian Empire to the United States. The categories should be based on national borders at the time of emigration.
The exiled Protestants from Salzburg, circa 1732. The Salzburger Emigrants were a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (now in present-day Austria) that immigrated to the Georgia Colony in 1734 to escape religious persecution.
Randall Miller points out that "America had no titled aristocracy... although one aristocrat, Lord Thomas Fairfax, did take up residence in Virginia in 1734." [50] Lord Fairfax (1693–1781) was a Scottish baron who came to America permanently to oversee his family's vast land holdings. Historian Arthur Schlesinger says that he "was unique ...