![]() ![]() And he told me to run to my mother and tell her it was nothing, so she wouldn't get scared and run after him. Our great brother spoke in his typical style that it was nothing and looked as usual, although he had lost a lot of blood. In a letter to his other brother Ferdinand Maximilian, Karel Ludvík described the meeting with Franz Joseph in this way: "I see the Emperor standing in the anteroom, admirably calm, with his wound fortunately bandaged. Here the monarch was also met by his brother Karel Ludvík, three years his junior," Martínek describes in his book. The court physician, Professor Seeburger, was summoned there. "The wounded emperor was taken to the nearby Archduke Albrecht's palace, where the Albertina exhibition hall is today. The Viennese present wanted to literally tear the assassin apart, but Franz Joseph wanted them to do no harm and just have him arrested. However, this was not to the liking of the freedom fighters of Italy, who raided the guardhouse, killing twelve and wounding over seventeen imperial soldiers. Only later did the romantic idea spread that the young secessionist was avenging the dishonour of his sister Margit, a dancer withMizzi Langrova," Miroslav Martínek writes in his book The Bloody Road to Sarajevo.Īccording to an old legend, the emperor said after the attack, "Calm down, it's nothing! I only share the fate of my soldiers in Milan." February 1853, when in the capital of Lombardy, which at that time remained part of the Austrian Empire. "Josef Ettenreich, the master butcher, restrained him and disarmed his assailant, whose cry of "Eljén Kossuth!" revealed his sympathy for the Hungarian struggle for independence in 1849/49. At an unguarded moment, the twenty-one-year-old Libényi rushed at him from behind and stabbed Franz Joseph in the neck with a long kitchen knife. ![]() It all happened one day in February 1853 at noon, when the young monarch, accompanied by Count Max O'Donnell, was walking along the walls of Vienna and watching the soldiers drill. Concerns grew at a time when only with great luck did he survive the assassination. Throughout Franz Joseph's reign (1848-1916), the question of who would succeed him was still being debated. It happened on 15 February (also reported as 18 February) 1853. ![]() He attacked the future Austrian emperor while walking on the walls of Vienna. János Libényi, a tailor's journeyman and nationalist, was sentenced to death for the unsuccessful assassination of Franz Joseph I. ![]()
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