Index
An overview of all themes of the World of the Habsburgs
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955–1291
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1200–1850
- The textualization of the world
- If only I could read
- Places of learning: schools
- A Viennese institution: the Collegium civium
- Book production in the Middle Ages
- What did people read in the Middle Ages? Courtly and middle-class reading matter
- The invention of the printing press
- The secularization of education
- The first schoolbooks are printed
- I want more! The revolution in reading in the eighteenth century
- Read, read, read …
- Pirate editions commissioned by the state
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Country Life in the Middle Ages
1273–1500
- ‘The end of the world is nigh’ – The people of Europe beset by natural disasters
- ‘Mortalitas magna’ – the ‘Great Death’ – the plague epidemic of 1348-9
- Large areas of land completely deserted – Demographic trends and agricultural production
- Lord of the manor has vacancies for peasants, with possible tenure for life – The origin of the peasant class
- Of maids and day labourers, craftsmen and the ‘unhoused’ – Social groups in the countryside
- Peasants versus the lords of the manor – Rural revolts
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1273–1500
- ‘High society’ – How having the rights of a burgher went hand in hand with social status
- On the fringes of town – beggars, prostitutes, hangmen
- Craftsmen are men – and women? Work for women and men in the world of urban crafts and trades
- Tuesday and Saturday are market days – crafts, markets and food supplies in medieval Vienna
- Persecution of the Jews in the Middle Ages – With social and economic motives and religious and ideological...
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1273–1500
- Anything holy will fetch a good price – The medieval trade in religious relics
- Good business under the protection of saints – Markets in monasteries and cemeteries
- Monastery business matters – Monasteries and trade in the Middle Ages
- Off to the ‘holy places’ – Pilgrims and pilgrimages in the Middle Ages
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1278–1476
- Ancient connections: Swiss monasteries as Habsburg loci of remembrance
- The Holy Roman Empire and the divine order of the world
- A cathedral without a bishop: St Stephen’s in Vienna
- Almost a crown: The Austrian archducal coronet
- The quest for ‘blue blood’ – the Habsburgs’ fictitious ancestors
- AEIOU
- The House of Austria – the Habsburgs and the Empire
- The double-headed eagle: the omnipresent emblem of the Habsburgs
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1278–1918
- The beginnings – the medieval Hofburg
- The spiritual centre: the Hofburg Chapel
- The Habsburg Court monastery – St Augustine’s
- A question of priorities
- Vienna Gloriosa: The grandiose projects of Charles VI
- The Ceremonial Apartments
- The glory that was Rome – Franz Joseph’s dream of an Imperial Forum
- The Presidential Chancellery and the long shadow of the double eagle
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Art and ‘junk’ – the Habsburgs and their cabinets of art and curiosities
1278–1835
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1282–1406
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1282–1790
- Marks of presence: ecclesiastical endowments of the Habsburgs in Vienna
- Mauerbach and Gaming: the rise and fall of two Habsburg monastic foundations
- The struggle for peoples’ souls – the Habsburgs and the Counter-Reformation
- The Habsburg Court monastery – St Augustine’s
- New spirit in old buildings: religious houses in the Baroque era
- The question of utility: The ‘Klostersturm’ under Joseph II
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1296–1918
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1348–1900
- A university for Vienna
- Teachers and students at Vienna University
- ‘Bursen’ and ‘Koderien’ – the student hostels of the Middle Ages
- Septem artes liberales: What was studied in the Middle Ages?
- Winds of change – humanism arrives at Vienna University
- More state influence: Gerard van Swieten’s reform of the university
- Revolution! Academic freedom for the university and women in the lecture halls
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1404–1500
- Habsburg occupation of the royal throne
- The posthumous prince and his guardian
- A weak yet tenacious emperor: Frederick III
- Fraternal strife: Emperor Frederick III versus Duke Albrecht VI
- The Hungarians are coming: Emperor Frederick III versus Matthias Corvinus
- The reuniting of the Habsburg lands: Maximilian I
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1430–1570
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The Habsburgs in Sound and Image
1450–1918
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Habsburg against Turkey and France
1453–1739
- A new great power in south-east Europe: the Ottoman Empire
- ‘Blood enmity’ with France: Charles V against Francis I
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 1
- (Minor) hostilities along the Military Frontier
- Habsburg versus the Sun King
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 2
- The battle for the Spanish inheritance
- Prince Eugene, the ‘noble knight’
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1478–1913
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1486–1618
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1500–1739
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1500–1739
- Merry on wine and beer – Tales of inns and taverns
- Brewing beer, growing wine and providing revenue for the authorities – Of breweries and vineyards
- Aristocrats with a sweet tooth – How chocolate ‘conquered’ Vienna
- Therapeutic, luxurious and a stimulant – Coffee and tea are put on the menu
- As sweet as sugar – from luxury item to article of mass consumption
- The joys of smoking versus addiction to tobacco – From nobleman to farmer’s wife, smoking is for everyone
- When non-smoking threatened the Monarchy – The non-smokers of Lombardy
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Travelling in the Service of the Monarch
1500–1740
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1500–1650
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1500–1648
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Of Witches, Barber-surgeons and Healers
1500–1740
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The ‘Household-Family’ – Living and Working Together
1500–1740
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Knowledge of Medicine in the Early Modern Era
1500–1740
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Learning to Shop at the Grocer’s
1500–1648
- Speculation in foodstuffs in the early modern period – The links between weather, manorial estates and grai...
- Guaranteed cheap and definitely not stolen – Flea markets in the early modern period
- Everything one’s heart desires – Europe’s commercial arteries
- Of markets and fairs – and their importance for trade
- Not a global player after all – On overseas trade
- The Court as ‘liberator’ – Of Court craftsmen and craftsmen ‘exempted by the Court’
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1500–1650
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Of global empires and dream worlds
1500–1739
- The Golden Fleece
- Charles V and the vision of universal monarchy
- The Neugebäude – an idealist’s dream
- The Habsburgs’ Spanish dream
- The Escorial
- Signs of imperial majesty: the Crown of Rudolf
- Rudolf II and the ‛Golden City’
- The new Rome: Fischer von Erlach and the 'Kaiserstil'
- The Karlskirche
- In the company of gods and heroes – the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn and classical antiquity
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Reformation and Counter-Reformation. A New Era
1500–1740
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Glassworks, Paper Mills and Fish Ponds
1500–1648
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1500–1648
- Money from the ‘New World’ – sources of money and taxation under the Habsburgs
- Wars are an expensive business – Defence against the Turks as a burden on Habsburg finances
- Turning lead into silver – Experiments in alchemy at the Imperial Court
- ‘Sponsored by Fugger’ – Trading houses as financial backers
- (In)voluntary loans – The Jews as financial backers
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A Tripartite Society and Social Conflict
1500–1740
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Baroque splendour for Church and Emperor
1550–1730
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Schönbrunn – the Habsburgs’ imperial showpiece
1569–1918
- Schönbrunn before ‛Schönbrunn’ – the beginnings
- From castle in the air to château de plaisance – Schönbrunn and Fischer von Erlach
- A myth is created – Maria Theresa and Schönbrunn
- With pomp and circumstance – Schönbrunn as the arena of the Imperial Court
- In the company of gods and heroes – the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn and classical antiquity
- The allure of the exotic – Habsburgs and the fashion for all things Chinese
- Private – No Entry!
- Schönbrunn – final glory and last arena of the Monarchy
- Schönbrunn in the inter-war period – a palace without an emperor
- Schönbrunn after the Second World War – nostalgia and imperial cult
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1595–1740
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1600–1800
- The first opera at the imperial Viennese Court
- Pomp and state: Baroque festivities at the Viennese court
- Party-time: The marriage of Leopold I and Margarita of Spain
- An emperor as composer
- A musical family
- Domestic music-making instead of festive operas – the end of the Baroque opera
- The party continues: private performances by the imperial children
- A private stage: the theatre at Schönbrunn Palace
- A very special Christmas concert: Joseph Haydn and the Russian grand duchess
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1617–1648
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1649–1791
- The Emperor and his Court
- The omnipotence of etiquette – ceremonial at the Viennese Court
- The Ceremonial Apartments
- With pomp and circumstance – Schönbrunn as the arena of the Imperial Court
- Members only – the right of admission to Court
- A question of honour – receiving the diplomatic corps
- Honorary services at Court – it’s being there that counts!
- The public banquet – a visual feast for the crowd
- On the 'Empress’s side' – women at Court
- Happy imperial holidays – summer residences around Vienna
- Imperial ‘downtime’: the Habsburg passion for hunting
- The emperor’s new clothes – Joseph II’s break with tradition
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1649–1739
- The Court as the source of power
- A closed society
- Members only – the right of admission to Court
- Noblesse oblige – aristocratic career paths
- On the edges of power – the four highest ceremonial Court ranks
- Faith and power – the nobility and the Catholic Church
- Vienna – the city as stage for the display of aristocratic status
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‘For the diversion of the public and Your Majesty’
1700–1790
- From real tennis court to Court Theatre
- A traffic obstruction: the Kärntnertortheater
- Noble entertainment, loss-making ventures
- ‘Woeful taste’: German-language theatre in need of censorship
- Kasperl versus Sonnenfels: the ‘Hanswurst controversy’
- An Emperor as theatre director and talent scout
- Happy endings: a ‘Viennese’ ending for Hamlet & Co.
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1700–1913
- Turquerie – the reception of the Orient in Europe
- Maria Theresa in Turkish dress
- Impaling Turks’ heads at Court
- Turks in Vienna! The Abduction from the Seraglio at Vienna’s Burgtheater
- Habsburgs à la turca. A political issue (Part 1)
- The classic ‘Other’. Habsburgs à la turca (Part 2)
- A ‘Turkish Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg
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1711–1918
- Courtly and popular pleasures
- Viennese masquerades
- A new venue: the Redoute Rooms
- The bears are out! Bloodthirsty pleasures at the Hetz amphitheatre
- The Biedermeier mania for dancing
- The Viennese coffee house
- The Viennese waltz
- The Strauss dynasty – a family business
- Roll up, roll up! Entertainments in the Prater
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Love Stories and Marriage Business
1736–1913
- Producing a dynasty
- The marriages of the ‘useful’ emperor
- Be fruitful and multiply
- The favourite daughter and the patron of the arts
- The Queen of Naples and Sicily
- The Queen of France
- Marriage with the devil
- No lengthy mourning – remarriage in the Biedermeier era
- The Empress of Brazil
- Love is free
- To love and honour her, till death do you part?
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What do the emperor’s apartments look like? What about middle-class households?
1740–1918
- Maria Theresa, empress and interior designer
- ‘Dispensing with all unnecessary pomp’
- Trying out comfort and cosiness for a change: Biedermeier at Court
- What do the Emperor’s apartments look like?
- … And what about middle-class households?
- Forwards into history – The ‘Maria-Theresian style’
- The emperor on his summer retreat: the imperial villa at Ischl
- A ‘Turkish Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg
- The emperor’s furniture – the Hofmobiliendepot
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1740–1792
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1740–1848
- The Emperor is spinning, the Empress is peeved – Workshops and Habsburg economic policy
- Cottage industry – Outwork and ‘putting out’
- ‘Spinning Jenny’ versus the workshops or ‘manufactories’ – Of workshops and new machines
- With needle and thread – The invention of the sewing machine
- The guilds as tax collectors – Eighteenth-century craft reforms
- Does competition stimulate trade? Journeymen in Vienna protest against the ‘manufactories’
- If you earn money you can go shopping – The link between the manufactories and consumerism
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1740–1792
- Joseph II’s ‘sacred’ plough – The Emperor as farmer
- Survey the country and put a tax on land – The Josephinian land register was used for a new system of taxation
- More land for agriculture – The search for arable land
- Dead sparrows and prayers against locusts – Measures to increase yields
- What is put on the table is eaten! A short history of the potato
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On Land, on Water and in the Air
1740–1792
- It is forbidden to wear clogs! Saving energy under Maria Theresa and Joseph II
- Coal instead of wood – Coal as an alternative supplier of energy
- Through the Monarchy by mail coach – Improvements to the road network
- The Danube flows in the wrong direction – Waterways as a form of transport with obstacles
- Unidentified flying object approaching from Prague – Balloon journeys as a spectacular show
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No Borders But There Are Restrictions
1740–1792
- Attention: End of customs area! Customs borders as economic obstacles
- Tolls are not there for fun – Anyone going on a journey had to pay tolls
- Who is protected by protective tariffs? Sealing off the Monarchy as a form of economic programme
- At the Hungarian border things came to a stop – Hungary is given the role of the Monarchy’s granary
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Emperor, King, Nobleman, Burgher, Peasant, Beggarman
1740–1913
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1740–1792
- St Nicholas’ Day gifts and a fortune ‘under the mattress’ – What Maria Theresa earned and did with her money
- More state, less private enterprise. Or: Marrying can make you rich!
- The ‘fat lady’ in Ethiopia - Maria Theresa’s likeness on its travels
- Money of paper – Financial necessity is the mother of invention
- Let speculation commence ... The founding of the Vienna Stock Exchange
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‘Better a mediocre peace than a glorious war’
1741–1814
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Where the Emperor and the People Meet
1741–1919
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1741–1914
- Private – No Entry!
- Schloss Hof – aristocratic country residence and Habsburg family palace
- Laxenburg – the Habsburg Arcadia
- Bad Ischl – heaven on earth
- The emperor on his summer retreat: the imperial villa at Ischl
- The Hermes Villa – a private residence funded by the state?
- Flushing out woodcock and chasing wild boar – Franz Joseph and his passion for the chase
- Palais Augarten: a place of recreation for Archduke Otto
- From Sarajevo to Artstetten – Franz Ferdinand’s final resting place
- Schloss Eckartsau: Emperor Karl on his way into exile
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1741–1913
- A difficult relationship – Maria Theresa’s Prague legacy
- Theresienstadt
- Reichstadt – a comfortable retreat for former rulers
- ‘When Bohemia still belonged to Austria …’
- Eljen király – Long live the king! Maria Theresa and Hungary
- The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy: the coronation of the Hungarian royal couple
- The castle in Buda – symbol of the Compromise
- Gödöllö Palace – Country residence of the Hungarian royal couple
- Miramare – ‘A beautiful house on the seashore’
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1741–1814
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Christkind, St Nicholas & Christmas trees
1741–1913
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The (Virtuous) Souls of the Monarchy
1751–1787
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1751–1884
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1753–1893
- Angelo Soliman
- A ‘noble’ robber, and no respecter of borders
- Crossing Borders
- Habsburgs à la turca. A political issue (Part 1)
- The classic ‘Other’. Habsburgs à la turca (Part 2)
- The new Austrian anti-Semitism (Part I)
- The new Austrian anti-Semitism (Part 2)
- The Iwakura Mission 1871/73 – the Japanese in Europe
- From the Logbook of Kume Kunitake
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Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and the Imperial Court at Vienna
1756–1791
- Wolferl and Nannerl at Court
- A genius in search of a position
- Mozart vs. Salieri 0:1 – a musical contest at the imperial Court
- Turks in Vienna! The Abduction from the Seraglio at Vienna’s Burgtheater
- The pianist: Mozart as virtuoso performer
- The Marriage of Figaro, the tale of a revolutionary barber
- The longed-for position at court: Mozart as Imperial-Royal Court Composer
- La clemenza di Tito – but no clemency for Mozart
- ‘O Isis and Osiris!’ The Masonic opera, The Magic Flute
- Mozart’s last composition
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Concern for the welfare of the Empire’s subjects
1757–1790
- Pension provision appropriate to station
- Who is overseeing whom? – The bureaucratic state of Joseph II
- The peasant as ‘provider for the people’
- Discipline to keep the population in order
- The Vienna Foundling Home between welfare and population policy
- Torture and execution
- How unemployment became a social problem
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1770–1913
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Social change in the Enlightenment
1773–1784
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1774–1784
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Unification of Europe à la Napoléon
1789–1821
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1789–1910
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‘It’s like declaiming on a beach facing out to sea’
1800–1918
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1800–1938
- Conserving the old from fear of the new
- The Heldenberg: a monument to patriotism
- The Vienna Arsenal – from Hall of Fame of the Austrian army to centre of the sciences
- God saved the Emperor – and Vienna got the Votivkirche
- Two men on horseback preside over ‘Heroes’ Square’
- Historic rallies on Heldenplatz
- Habsburg heroes, heroines and sons of the Muses – monuments on the Ringstrasse
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Classical Music in Nineteenth-Century Vienna
1800–1918
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1810–1815
- Emperor Franz II/I and Napoleon
- Marie Louise – a childhood spent in the shadows of world politics
- Napoleon at Schönbrunn Palace
- Napoleon seeks a wife
- Napoleon and Marie Louise: Courtship and wedding in Vienna
- The handover of the bride
- First meeting and wedding in Paris
- Marie Louise and the Duke of Reichstadt
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1814–1918
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Putting (Central) Europe in Order
1814–1918
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From the Magnificent City Centre to the Disreputable Suburbs
1815–1918
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1815–1913
- Named for Imperial Highnesses – Railways create new mobility
- All ways lead to Vienna – Trains mean quick journeys over long distances
- Two rulers in an ‘automobile’ – Of means of transport for the emperor and for his people
- A princess on a bicycle – Bicycles in the crowded streets
- Let there be light - Gas and electricity light up Vienna
- New in the catalogue: apartments with running water – Too little and too much water in Vienna
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1815–1918
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Of Financial Watchmen, Happy Savers and Suicides
1815–1913
- Thrifty Court and expensive army – State expenditure
- Tax matters – State revenue
- The palace of money – Where does all the money come from?
- The Emperor’s savings book and the State’s financiers – Banks and insurance in the Monarchy
- Quick money versus old aristocracy
- Crisis in the highest circles – Economic boom and stock exchange crash
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1815–1913
- To every region its task? ‘Division of labour’ in the Habsburg lands
- A museum, a university and spies for Franz II (I) – Economic promotion under Franz II (I)
- Mass products at the imperial Court – Some indicators of industrial production
- Exhibit the world – Vienna as World Exhibition venue
- For progress or against technology – Contemporary opinions of technical inventions
- Habsburg and Co. Ltd. – Habsburgs as industrialists
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1830–1918
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(Im)Morality and (Dis)Order in the Imperial House
1839–1918
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1848–1913
- Employer: His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, the Emperor
- Classes for the masses: hierarchies of service at the imperial Court
- On the edges of power – the four highest ceremonial Court ranks
- The Court Kitchens – dining at the emperor's behest
- The Court Linen Room
- The emperor’s furniture – the Hofmobiliendepot
- The emperor as only one person saw him: the valet de chambre and the human sides of the monarch
- In the shadow of imperial splendour – the Emperor's difficulties with his staff
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The Battle for a Political Voice
1848–1918
- Potential for conflict amongst the people: the struggle begins…
- 1848: Die Revolution geht weiter… und zu Ende
- Citizens take heart! The first public speeches
- Initial successes. The abolition of censorship
- A courageous vanguard. The Republic is proclaimed
- The right of assembly and association is gained
- Austrian women fighting for women’s rights
- Victor Adler: the ‘Aulic Councillor of the Revolution’
- Karl Lueger’s rise to Mayor of Vienna
- A classless civil society? Or: the price of democracy
- Winning over the masses
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Shopping in the Days of Franz Joseph
1848–1913
- Consumption goes to town – The capital as a ‘city of consumption’
- Shopping venues – Inequalities in consumption
- If your company wants to use the imperial coat of arms. The Imperial-Royal Court Suppliers
- Exclusive items and buying in bulk – What the Habsburgs ordered from the Suppliers to the Imperial-Royal Court
- 30 kg of salami or how much does an emperor eat? How the Court was supplied with food
- Naked archduke at Court supplier Sacher! A headline that is also good publicity
- What do Franz Joseph and a woman revolutionary have in common?
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High society – social life in the imperial capital
1850–1900
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1854–1898
- Franz Joseph and Elisabeth – and they lived happily ever after?
- The tender shoots of love: the imperial honeymoon at Laxenburg
- Franzl and Sisi, the prototype imperial couple
- Elisabeth and the constraints of courtly life
- Following in Sisi’s footsteps: the imperial park at Bad Ischl
- Fresh milk from happy cows – the Kammermeierei
- The Achilleion on Corfu – Elisabeth’s flight into antiquity
- The Hermes Villa – a private residence funded by the state?
- Death of a European traveller
- Luigi Lucheni: the man behind the file
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The Ringstrasse as a liberal, middle-class arena
1857–1914
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1857–1913
- Historicism – the architectural style of the Ringstrasse
- The glory that was Rome – Franz Joseph’s dream of an Imperial Forum
- The emperor’s architects
- The palaces of art and science
- It’s a record! 15,527 visitors on one day at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
- The natural history collections
- Buried alive? The new Burgtheater on Vienna’s Ringstrasse
- The ‘sunken chest’: The building of the Vienna Court Opera on the Ring
- God saved the Emperor – and Vienna got the Votivkirche
- Two men on horseback preside over ‘Heroes’ Square’
- Habsburg heroes, heroines and sons of the Muses – monuments on the Ringstrasse
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1863–1918
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1889–1918
- The old gentleman of Schönbrunn on the path to the First World War
- The problem of the succession
- Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand – a tense relationship
- The fatal assassination in Sarajevo
- Karl – the unexpected crown prince
- ‘To My Peoples’
- The Last Days of Mankind
- Karl I: The peace emperor?
- Emperor Karl I and the collapse of the Monarchy
- The final days of the Monarchy
- Downfall and rebirth
- Schloss Eckartsau: Emperor Karl on his way into exile
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Habsburgs in Exile – the Dynasty after 1918
1918–2300
- The Habsburgs in exile I: from Switzerland to Madeira
- Attempts to regain power
- Putsch attempts in Hungary
- Habsburgs in exile II: 1922-1945
- Zita – to the very last for ‘God, Emperor and Fatherland’
- Otto, the last ‘crown prince’
- Otto and Austrofascism
- The ‘Habsburg Crisis’
- The beatification of Emperor Karl I
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1526–1739
- Pious religious zeal as a sovereign virtue
- The struggle for peoples’ souls – the Habsburgs and the Counter-Reformation
- Magna Mater Austriae – the veneration of the Virgin as the Habsburg state cult
- Under the sign of the Cross
- The Corpus Christi procession – ‘God’s Court Ball’
- In humility: the foot-washing ceremony
- The Habsburg heaven: patron saints of lands and dynasty
- The ‘bridge saint’ and the House of Habsburg
- Empress and Church
- For God, Emperor and Fatherland
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Something to Celebrate? Habsburg festivities
1741–1918
- The Erbhuldigung – The act of Hereditary Homage
- No queen without a throne – Maria Theresa’s accession
- Old times, new times: the coronation of Joseph II in Frankfurt
- A wedding album – the marriage of Joseph II to Isabella of Parma
- The public banquet – a visual feast for the crowd
- The subtle distinction: Court Ball and Ball at Court
- The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy: the coronation of the Hungarian royal couple
- The last act – stately obsequies
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1741–1918
- The pillars of Maria Theresa’s throne
- Maria Theresa and Joseph II – a classic mother-son conflict?
- Archdukes in holy orders
- Archduchess Maria Elisabeth – the Emperor’s representative
- Metternich: ‘coachman’ and ‘rock’
- Archduchess Sophie: the ‘only man’ at court?
- In the shadow of an iron lady: Archduke Franz Karl
- The King’s Deputy: Archduke Josef, ‘József nádor’
- The ‘Reich’s idle rotter’: Archduke Johann
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1741–1914
- A family presents itself - Maria Theresa and the image of the dynasty
- Celebrating with Maria Theresa – the ceremonial paintings at Schönbrunn
- Ribald satire as a political weapon – Maria Theresa as the butt of caricature
- Maria Theresa and Frederick II – opposites in all respects
- A place in the sun: Joseph II, the Augarten and how the Viennese spent their leisure time
- The Franzensburg – the ‘citizen-emperor’s’ chivalric fantasy
- Archduke Johann: back to nature – the Tyrolean Garden at Schönbrunn
- Forwards into history – The ‘Maria-Theresian style’
- What do the Emperor’s apartments look like?
- The emperor on his summer retreat: the imperial villa at Ischl
- His Imperial Majesty deigns to announce ... the Court and the public domain
- The Kapuzinergruft – last residence of the Habsburgs
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1764–1913
- ‘Water taken in moderation is not harmful’
- The battle against smallpox
- She’s alive! Maria Theresa recovers from smallpox
- For the benefit and comfort of the sick
- Anatomical wax models und tobacco enemas – the Josephinum as a training institution for medical students
- The commitment of Emperor Joseph II to the ‘care of the insane’
- Cholera as a salutary process of natural selection?
- Prostitution. A case for the Morality Police
- ‘All my libido is for Austria-Hungary’