Heide Dienst
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Professor, Institute of Austrian History Research, University of Vienna. Author of Babenberger Studien and others.
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Leopold I was the Holy Roman emperor during whose lengthy reign (1658β1705) Austria emerged from a series of struggles with the Turks and the French to become a great European power, in which monarchical absolutism and administrative centralism gained ascendancy. Leopold, the second son ofβ¦
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