# Luigi Lucheni

> The anarchist who killed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898, stabbing her with a sharpened file on a Geneva quay. The murder was meant to make headlines — it did, and his name became shorthand for political violence dressed as ideology.

*Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1873–1910)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1873-04-22
- **Died:** 1910-10-19
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Louis Lucheni on 22 April 1873, he grew up Italian, drifting and rootless. Somewhere along the way he latched onto anarchism — the fashionable radicalism of the dispossessed — and decided a spectacular act would give his life meaning. He sharpened a file, stalked the Empress in Geneva, and drove it into her chest. She walked on for a few minutes before collapsing. He was caught immediately, tried, and imprisoned. On 19 October 1910, he hanged himself in his cell, having spent twelve years as the man who killed a woman because she was famous.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 22.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #140

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Designer, #Religion, #France, #Europe, #19th Century

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317709)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Luigi%20Lucheni)
- [Luigi Lucheni](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
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- [Luigi Lucheni](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
- [لوئیجی لوکنی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C)
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- [Luigi Lucheni](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
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- [ルイジ・ルケーニ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B)
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- [Wikiquote](https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luigi_Lucheni)
- [لويجى لوتشينى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89)
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