Find A Grave - Tyrol (Tirol)

Aufschnaiter, Peter b. November 2, 1899 d. October 12, 1973
Adventurer. Born in Kitzbühel, Austria, atended schools in Kufstein and was drafted into military service during World War One. After completing his abitur (high school) he studied agriculture in Munich, Germany. While in Munich he continued mountain climbing and met several German climbers of the era. Participated in expeditions to the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga (1929 and 1931), and later the 1939 German expedition to Nanga Parbat in Kashmir which included fellow...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Kitzbüheler Bergfriedhof, Kitzbuhel, Tirol, Austria
Brenner, Hans b. November 25, 1938 d. September 4, 1998
Actor. Appeared in several classic Austrian television series, including "Münchner Geschichten," "Monaco Franze" and more.
Höttinger Friedhof, Innsbruck, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria
Frstin Von Siebenbrgen, Maria Christierna b. November 10, 1574 d. April 6, 1621
Austrian Royalty. Archduchess, daughter of Karl II of Austria (Habsbourg) Duke of Styrie, and his wife Maria De Bavière (Wittelsbach) Duchesse of Steiemark. Married to Sigismund Bathory, ruler of Transsylvania. When the marriage was anulled by the Vatican, she entered a monastery in Hall, Tyrol, where she became abbess in 1612. (Bio by: MC)
Jesuitenkirche, Hall, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria
Griesser, Max b. November 18, 1928 d. August 19, 2000
Actor both in TV and theatre. Though Austrian by birth, he was mostly regarded as a typical Bavarian character.
Cause of death: suicide, probably caused by acute depression
Söll, Kufstein, Tirol, Austria
Sailer, Toni b. November 17, 1935 d. August 24, 2009
Olympic Gold Medalist. He won three Golds in Alpine skiing at the 1956 Cortina Olympics (the first to accomplish this), then went on to success in a movie, recording, and business career. Raised in the Tyrolean Alps, Sailer learned to ski from around age two; he entered competitions from an early age (scoring his first win at 11), while working in his father's shop to become a licensed glazier and plumber. Sailer's career highlight came over three days in the Italian Alps when he won the giant...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Kitzbüheler Bergfriedhof, Kitzbuhel, Tirol, Austria
Schrödinger, Erwin b. August 12, 1887 d. January 4, 1961
Scientist. He was physician and a professor of physics who made important contributions to the development of Quantum Mechanics. In 1933, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. He joined the Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland in 1939, where he continued studies of new statistics, and the relationship of these statistics to statistical thermodynamics. He also worked on problems of general relativity and cosmology and on a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Alpbach graveyard, Tyrol, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria
Sforza, Bianca Maria b. April 5, 1472 d. December 31, 1510
Royalty. Born the eldest daughter of Galezzo Maria Sforza and his second wife Bona of Savoy in Milan. Two years old she was married to her cousin Filiberto I of Savoy, who died in 1482. During her absence her father had been assassinated and her uncle Ludovico Maria, called "il Moro", had ousted her mother as regent and her brother as duke. At her uncles court she was allowed to indulge her own interests and did not receive much of an education. She married the widowed King Maximilian I in 1493...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Stift Stams, Stams, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria
Trakl, Georg b. February 3, 1887 d. November 3, 1914
Poet. He was an early leader of the German Expressionist movement. Like many artists of his generation Trakl was obsessed with what he saw as the decay of European civilization, and he articulated this with language of great power and sensitivity. With the exception of the book "Poems" (1913), all his work appeared after his death. This includes "Sebastian in Dream" (1915), "The Autumn of the Lonely" (1920), and "Song of the Desperate" (1933). Trakl was born in Salzburg, Austria. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Neuen Muhlhauer Friedhof, Innsbruck, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria
Ursulaec, Viorica b. March 26, 1894 d. October 22, 1985
Opera Singer. A dramatic soprano of wide repertoire, she is remembered for creating lead roles in four of Richard Strauss' late works. The child of a Greek Orthodox archdeacon, she was raised by a musical family in what was then Romania; after training for five years in Vienna she made her 1922 professional debut at Zagreb as Charlotte from Jules Massenet's "Werther". Viorica was to appear in venues of increasing prestige as the years passed, being engaged at the Vienna Volksoper in 1924...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Kirchhof Ehrwald, Ehrwald, Tyrol (Tirol), Austria

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