Palais Szeps
Palais Szeps is located at Liechtensteinstraße 51 in Vienna's 9th district Alsergrund. History The palace was built in 1876/77 by Ludwig Tischler for the newspaper publisher Moritz Szeps. Szeps was a confidant of Crown Prince Rudolf and publisher of the ''Neues Wiener Tagblatt'' since 1867. Purchased by the Swedish state in 1928, he building has been the site of the Swedish Embassy in Austria since 1960. From 2013 to 2015, it was renovated and partly rebuilt. Since 2014, it has been a listed building protected for as a cultural heritage site. Architecture The architecture is Viennese New Renaissance from the Wilhelminian period. In the Beletage it has strong gable roofing, the entrance hall is barrel-vaulted and has a coffered ceiling. References

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Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace **Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées ** Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in the French ''département'' of Deux-Sèvres Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a population of 374,878 in 2019.

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Palais () may refer to: * Dance hall, popularly a ''palais de danse'', in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK * ''Palais'', French for palace **Grand Palais The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ( en, Great Palace of the Elysian Fields), commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arro ..., the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées ** Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris * Palais River in the French ''département'' of Deux-Sèvres * Palais Theatre, historic cinema ("picture palace") in Melbourne, Australia * Richard Palais (born 1931), American mathematician * Le Palais, a commune in Morbihan departement, France See also * Palais Royal (other) * Palai (other) * Palace (other) * Palas (other) {{disambig, surname ...
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Moritz Szeps
Moritz Szeps (5 November 1835, Busk – 9 August 1902, Vienna) was an Austrian newspaper tycoon who founded and published the ''Neues Wiener Tagblatt'' (1867-1886), ''Wiener Tagblatt'' (1886-1894), and ''Das Wissen für'' ''Alle'' (1900). Early life Szeps was born into a Jewish family in Busk, Ukraine in 1835. His father was a doctor, and he initially studied medicine in Lemberg. After going to Vienna to continue his studies, he decided to change careers and became a journalist instead. Journalism and publishing From 1855 to 1867, he was editor-in-chief of the '. In 1867, following the resignation of most of its employees, he took over the Neues Wiener Tagblatt, which became the leading a liberal newspaper in Austria. As a friend of Crown Prince Rudolf, Szeps published his political writings anonymously. Szeps, however, was not shy about making direct attacks on his opponents and critics. By 1876, he was sufficiently successful to build his own home, the " Palais Szeps" ...
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Crown Prince Rudolf
en, Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph , caption = Rudolf in 1887 , spouse = , issue = Elisabeth Marie, Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Franz Joseph I of Austria , mother = Empress Elisabeth of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Schloss Laxenburg, Laxenburg, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Mayerling, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary , burial_date = , burial_place = Imperial Crypt, Vienna , occupation = , signature = , religion = Roman Catholicism Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (Sissi). He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth. In 1889, he died in a suicide pact with his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge. Th ...
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Neues Wiener Tagblatt
The Neues Wiener Tagblatt was a daily newspaper published in Vienna from 1867 to 1945. It was one of the highest-circulation newspapers in Austria before 1938. History The newspaper was founded by Eduard Mayer as a successor to the Wiener Journal. The first issue appeared on March 10, 1867, the year of the Compromise with Hungary and the enactment of the so-called December Constitution, valid until 1918. As early as July 13, 1867, the publisher Moritz Szeps, who had left the Morgen-Post newspaper in a dispute, took over. From 1870 he supported Josef Schöffel with a campaign in his successful fight for the Vienna Woods. Szeps' connection to Crown Prince Rudolf meant that anonymous political texts by the crown prince could repeatedly appear in the paper, in which he advocated the liberal, progressive development of Austria. Szeps remained the sole owner and publisher of the paper until May 15, 1872, then contributed the paper to the Steyrermühl-Verlag publishing house, which he ...
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1870s Architecture
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * G ...
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Renaissance Revival Architecture In Vienna
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. It occurred after the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages and was associated with great social change. In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a "long Renaissance" may put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. The traditional view focuses more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argues that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the Middle Ages. However, the beginnings of the period – the early Renaissance of the 15th century and the Italian Proto-Renaissance from around 1250 or 1300 – overlap considerably with the Late Middle Ages, conventionally dat ...
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