Johann Peter Frank
Born Rotalben, Bavaria to a French father. Worked as a doctor in France and Germany. He wrote on preventative medicine and toured Europe promoting his ideas. Died in Vienna where, despite his re...
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Anna Freud
Pioneer of child psychoanalysis.  Born Vienna, the sixth and last child of Sigmund.  Was on holiday in England in 1914 when war was declared and she had to return home.  After nursing her father i...
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Sigmund Freud
Founding father of psychoanalysis. Born Morovia. In 1860 the family settled in Vienna where he studied, began his career and married.  In 1875 he visited his half-brothers in Manchester, and again ...
2 memorials
Future Fund of the Republic of Austria
Subsidises projects which foster tolerance and mutual understanding of the sufferings caused by the Nazi regime on the territory of present-day Austria. Keeping alive the memory of the victims as a...
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Mark Gertler
Painter. Â Born 16 Gun Street, Spitalfields. As a baby he returned with his family to their native Galicia (Austria-Poland) but after a few years they came back to London's East End where his artist...
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David Gestetner
Inventor and industrialist. Born in Csorna, Hungary. Worked in Vienna before emigrating to America. Returned to Vienna where he entered a partnership making equipment for hectographs (an early form...
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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA
Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...
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Joseph Haydn
Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific.  Born Austria as Franz Joseph Haydn.  Aged 6 he was sent away to train as a musician. Worked primarily for the wealthy Esterházy family.  ...
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General Haynau, Baron Julius Jacob von Haynau
Born Kassel, now in Germany.  Aged 15 joined the Austrian army, served in the Napoleonic wars and rose rapidly. His suppression of revolutionaries in Italy and Hungary including flogging women and ...
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William H. Heath
Mayor of Wandsworth 1936/37 and ballroom dancer. The cutting in our photograph is dated 24/8/1937, so we presume Mrs Heath was still around, and happy for him and Nellie Wood to go off together!
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