JOSEPH I

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JOSEPH I . (16781711), Roman emperor, was the elder son of the emperor

Leopold

LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

I. and his third wife, Eleanora, countess palatine, daughter of Philip William of Neuburg. Born in Vienna on the 26th of July 1678, he was educated strictly by Prince Dietrich Otto von Salm, and became a good linguist. In 1687 he received the crown of

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

, and he was elected king of the Romans in 169o. In 1699 he married Wilhelmina Amalia, daughter of Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Luneburg, by whom he had two daughters. In 1702, on the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, he saw his only military service. He joined the imperial general Louis of Baden in the siege of Landau. It is said that when he was advised not to go into a place of danger he replied that those who were afraid might retire. He succeeded his father as emperor in 1705, and it was his good fortune to govern the Austrian dominions, and to be head of the Empire during the years in which his trusted general Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

, either acting alone in Italy or with the duke of Marlborough in Germany and Flanders, was beating the armies of Louis XIV. During the whole of his reign

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

was disturbed by the conflict with Francis Rack6czy II., who eventually took

refuge

REFUGE

in France. The emperor did not himself take the field against the rebels, but he is entitled to a large share of the credit for the restoration of his authority. He reversed many of the pedantically authoritative

measures

MEASURES

of his father, thus. placating all opponents who could be pacified, and he fought stoutly for what he believed to be his rights. Joseph showed himself very independent towards the

pope

, and hostile to the

Jesuits

JESUITS

, by whom his father had been much influenced. He had the tastes for art and music which were almost hereditary in his family, and was an active hunter. He began the attempts to settle the question of the Austrian

inheritance

INHERITANCE

by a pragmatic sanction, which were continued by his brother Charles VI. Joseph died in Vienna on the'I7th of April 1711, of small-pox.
See F. Krones von Marchland, Grundriss der Oesterreichischen Geschichte (1882); F. Wagner, Historia Josephi Caesaris (1746); J. C. Herchenhahn, Geschichte der Regierung Kaiser Josephs I. (17861789) ; C. van Noorden, Europaische Geschichteim z8.Jahrhundert (187o1882).

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