# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luigi-lucheni
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:52:05.671Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.