# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/empress-elisabeth-of-austria
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:41.869Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/empress-elisabeth-of-austria"
name: "Empress Elisabeth of Austria"
slug: "empress-elisabeth-of-austria"
description: "She ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 44 years but spent most of them running from it — obsessed with her waist, in love with Hungary, and traveling alone after her son's murder-suicide shattered what was left of court life. An anarchist's blade in Geneva ended it in 1898."
tagline: "Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898 (1837–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isabel_da_%C3%81ustria_1867.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1837-12-24"
deathDate: "1898-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.84
  historical:           36.234564
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 100
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Elisabeth of Bavaria married her first cousin Franz Joseph I at 16 in 1854 and found herself suffocated by Habsburg formality she'd never been raised for. Her mother-in-law seized control of her four children; only the birth of her son Rudolf gave her leverage at court, but the strain broke her health. She escaped often to Hungary, fell deeply for the place, and helped negotiate the dual monarchy in 1867. Rudolf's murder-suicide with his mistress at Mayerling in 1889 finished her. She withdrew entirely, travelled the continent without family, built herself a Greek palace named for Achilles on Corfu, and tightlaced her corsets to near-skeletal proportions. In Geneva nine years later, an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni stabbed her through the heart.