The 70th issue of the "Austrian Biographical Dictionary" includes 212 main and 29 subentries from the inventor and manufacturer Jakob Warchalowski to the publisher and historian Franz Julius Wettel. It contains among others the biographies of the mayor of Vienna Richard Weiskirchner; the founder of the Association of Christian domestic employees and member of the Lower Austrian Parliament Johanna Weiß; the Hungarian Prime Minister Sándor Wekerle; the Tyrolean Benedictine friar and writer Beda Weber; the influential theologian Albert Maria Weiss; the gynaecologist Ernst Wertheim ("Wertheimklinik"); the physiologist Helene Wastl; the pioneer of histological pathology Karl Wedl; the pioneer of physical chemistry in Austria Rudolf Wegscheider; the astronomer Edmund Weiss; the physicist Anton Wassmuth; the soccer player Ferdl Wesely; the Jesuit missionary Franz Xaver Weninger who worked in the USA; Marie Weiler, actress and partner of Johann Nestroy; the flight technician Franz Wels; Karl Wessely, the founder of papyrology in Austria; the court actress Josefine Wessely; the pioneer of iron and reinforced concrete construction Gustav Adolf Wayss; the composer Anton Webern; the philosopher Otto Weininger, known for his work "Geschlecht und Charakter"; the flower painter Sebastian Wegmayr; the painter and etcher Johann Baptist Wengler; the journalists Edmund and Moriz Wengraf as well as the writers Josef Weinheber and Franz Werfel.weiterlesen