Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
The final phase of colonial immigration, from 1760 to 1820, became dominated by free settlers and was marked by a huge increase in British immigrants to North America and the United States in particular. In that period, 871,000 Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of which over 70% were British (including Irish in that category).
Austrian diaspora in the United States (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Austrian diaspora in North America" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
A map showing the places that have been Austrian or Austro-Hungarian colonies and concessions, at different times. From the 17th century through to the 19th century, the Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Empire, and (from 1867 to 1918) the Austro-Hungarian Empire made a few small short-lived attempts to expand overseas colonial trade through the acquisition of factories.
The first program for the federalisation of the Habsburg Empire was developed by the Hungarian nobleman Wesselényi Miklós.In his work titled Szózat a magyar és a szláv nemzetiség ügyében, published in Hungarian in 1843 and in German in 1844, he proposed not only social reforms but reforms of the state structure of the Empire and its nationality policy.