von Mises: Galician Jew from Lvov (now a part of the Ukraine)
Oskar Morgenstern: German
Ferdinand Porsche: German
Valier: never heard of this guy until I looked him up just now; a true Austrian - albeit born in Italy and worked in Germany. Damned shame he died so young.
Karl Popper: Jew
Ludwig Boltzmann: the second real Austrian on this list.
Christian Doppler: another real Austrian...
Ernst Mach: Volksdeutsche from what is now Czech Republic.
Wolfgang Pauli: Czech-Jew, and related to Mach.
Kurt Gödel: German AMERICAN, F YEAH!! :)
Gregor Mendel: Volksdeutsche, from Silesia (now part of Czech Republic)
So I see only 3 Austrian on this list!
P.S. the Brits/Finns/Ukrainians/Russians always make a good joke at Germans' expense, but Austria always gets a free pass... I'm trying to right that wrong! :)
Ferdinand Porsche was born in modern-day Czech Republic, then Austria-Hungary, and later held Austrian and German citizenship. Morgenstern, while German-born, resided in Austria and the US. Gödel grew up in Czechoslovakia and considered himself an Austrian. He was German in the way someone from Belgium in the 1940s was German. Et cetera.
Due to changing borders, I'm not attributing Austria-Hungary's borders, but people who held Austrian citizenship after the breakup or resided in Austria proper were Austrian, regardless of where they were born. I'm ignoring the notion that Jews can't Austrian.
Oskar Morgenstern: German
Ferdinand Porsche: German
Valier: never heard of this guy until I looked him up just now; a true Austrian - albeit born in Italy and worked in Germany. Damned shame he died so young.
Karl Popper: Jew
Ludwig Boltzmann: the second real Austrian on this list.
Christian Doppler: another real Austrian...
Ernst Mach: Volksdeutsche from what is now Czech Republic.
Wolfgang Pauli: Czech-Jew, and related to Mach.
Kurt Gödel: German AMERICAN, F YEAH!! :)
Gregor Mendel: Volksdeutsche, from Silesia (now part of Czech Republic)
So I see only 3 Austrian on this list!
P.S. the Brits/Finns/Ukrainians/Russians always make a good joke at Germans' expense, but Austria always gets a free pass... I'm trying to right that wrong! :)