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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947) was a German chemist who, with Hans Tropsch, invented the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis of liquid fuels from carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I (Franz Josef I), Emperor of Austria 1848–1916 and king of Hungary and Bohemia, the longest-reigning Habsburg. Came to the throne aged 18 in 1848, ruled neo-absolutist, then created the 1867 Dual Monarchy after the Ausgleich.
Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein
Franz Joseph II (Franz Josef II. von und zu Liechtenstein, 1906–1989), reigning Prince of Liechtenstein 1938–1989, first prince to reside in Vaduz, kept the state neutral in WWII, lost Czechoslovak estates in 1945, and modernized the economy.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German-Jewish writer of The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, and The Metamorphosis; insurance clerk whose friend Max Brod defied his burn order and published his manuscripts posthumously.
Franz Kapus
Franz Kapus (1909–1981), Swiss bobsled pilot from Zürich; won four-man gold at the 1956 Cortina Olympics at age 46, the oldest pilot of an Olympic gold-medal sled, after world titles in 1955.
Franz Karl Ginzkey
Franz Karl Ginzkey (1871–1963) was an Austrian writer and former k.u.k. officer and cartographer, known for the Lower Austrian anthem words and the 1904 children's book Hatschi Bratschis Luftballon.
Franz Karl Movers
Franz Karl Movers (1806–1856) was a German Catholic priest and Orientalist, professor of Old Testament exegesis at Breslau, best known for his unfinished work Die Phönizier.
Franz Keller
Franz Keller, German Nordic combined skier and ski jumper (born 1945, Nesselwang), won individual Nordic combined gold at Grenoble 1968 for West Germany, silver at the 1966 Oslo World Championships, and the 1973 Holmenkollen Medal.
Franz Kemser
Franz Kemser (1910-1986), West German bobsledder of SC Riessersee; Olympic four-man gold at Oslo 1952 with Ostler, Nieberl, and Kuhn in a 472 kg crew, plus World silvers in 1938 and 1953 and 1939 bronze.
Franz Klammer
Franz Klammer, also known as Kaiser Franz or Klammer Express, Austrian alpine skier born 1953 in Mooswald; 1976 Innsbruck Olympic downhill gold, record 25 World Cup downhill wins, five downhill World Cup titles.
Franz Klein (Austrian molecular biologist)
Franz Klein is an Austrian molecular biologist and retired professor at the University of Vienna whose laboratory discovered the meiotic cohesin subunit Rec8 and studies meiotic recombination in budding yeast.
Franz Kline
Franz Kline (1910–1962), American Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, known for large black-and-white gestural enamel paintings such as Mahoning, made from projected telephone-book studies with house-painting brushes.
Franz Kolb
Franz Kolb, Latinized Kolbius (1465–1535), was a Zwinglian reformer and preacher in Wertheim, Nuremberg, and Bern who co-wrote the ten theses behind the Bern Disputation of 1528.
Franz König
Franz König (1832–1910) was a German surgeon who held chairs of surgery at Rostock, Göttingen, and the Charité in Berlin, edited the Centralblatt für Chirurgie for thirty years, and named osteochondritis dissecans.
Franz Krull Sk class
The Franz Krull Sk class was sixteen 750 mm gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotives built by AS Franz Krull in Tallinn between 1931 and 1941 for Estonian narrow-gauge railways.
Franz L. Dickert
Franz L. Dickert, also published as F. L. Dickert, is an analytical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Vienna, known for molecularly imprinted polymer sensors.
Franz Lefort
Franz Lefort (Франц Яковлевич Лефорт) was a Genevan-born soldier and statesman who became a favorite of Peter I of Russia, rising to general-admiral before his death in 1699.
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferenc, 1811-1886), Hungarian pianist and composer, the nineteenth century's most celebrated piano virtuoso, inventor of the symphonic poem, Weimar Kapellmeister 1848-1861, champion of Wagner, and first president of the Budapest Academy of Music.
Franz M. Geiger
Franz M. Geiger is an American-based physical and analytical chemist, Morrison Professor at Northwestern University, who studies surfaces by nonlinear optics and co-authored the 2024 dark oxygen discovery.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (1880–1916), German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter with Kandinsky in Munich; known for symbolic animal paintings like Red Horses and Large Blue Horses, his color symbolism, and death at Verdun in 1916.
Franz Mertens
Franz Mertens, known in Polish as Franciszek, was a Polish-Austrian mathematician in analytic number theory, known for his 1874 theorems on primes and the Mertens conjecture.
Franz Mesmer
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), Viennese physician and founder of 'animal magnetism' (mesmerism), claimed an invisible universal fluid could cure disease; his 1784 debunking by the Franklin commission seeded the concept of suggestion and modern hypnosis.
Franz Moritz von Lacy
Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725–1801) was an Austrian field marshal and military reformer who, as president of the Hofkriegsrat, directed the reforms of the Maria-Theresian and Josephine era.
Franz Nissl
Franz Nissl (1860–1919) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who, as a medical student in 1884, invented the Nissl stain, revealing Nissl bodies and underpinning Brodmann's cortical map.
Franz Oesch
Franz Oesch, born 1938 in Zurich, is a Swiss pharmacologist and toxicologist known for his work on epoxide hydrolases, enzymes that handle reactive metabolites of chemical carcinogens.
Franz Pfeiffer (physicist)
Franz Pfeiffer (born 1972) is a physicist who holds the Chair of Biomedical Physics at the Technical University of Munich and works on new X-ray imaging methods.
Franz Philip Kaulen
Franz Philip Kaulen, born in Düsseldorf in 1827, was a German Catholic priest and scriptural scholar who taught Old Testament exegesis at Bonn and edited the Kirchenlexikon.
Franz Rautek
Franz Rautek (1902–1989) was an Austrian jiu-jitsu teacher and inventor who created the Rautek maneuver, an emergency carry for moving unconscious people out of danger still taught in first-aid courses.
Franz Reichelt
Franz Reichelt, also known as François Reichelt, was an Austrian-born French tailor, the "Flying Tailor", who died in 1912 testing his parachute suit from the Eiffel Tower.
Franz Rellich
Franz Rellich (1906–1955) was an Austrian-German mathematician whose Rellich–Kondrachov theorem and operator perturbation theory became foundations of PDE theory and quantum mechanics; he rebuilt Göttingen's institute after the war.