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Who assassinated Empress Elisabeth in Geneva in 1898?
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Franz Joseph
Emperor of Austria and king of Hungary,Franz Joseph, 1908.
Empress Elisabeth, the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, was assassinated in Geneva on September 10, 1898, by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Luccheni.12
Luccheni mortally stabbed the Empress, bringing a tragic end to her life, which had been marked by personal sorrow following the 1889 suicide of her son, Crown Prince Rudolf.12