page_title: Theresianum
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Theresianum / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: King Alphonso XII of Spain
context_page_description: Theresianum is a private boarding and day school governed by the laws for public schools in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1746 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
context_section_description: Often referred to as one of Austria's finest schools, Theresianum has shaped over 260 years of Austrian and European history; its graduates include Nobel Prize winners, political leaders, as well as writers and thinkers across a wide array of disciplines:
  Francis II Xaver of Salm-Reifferscheid-Krautheim, cardinal and organizer of first successful exhibition on Großglockner
  Ferenc Széchényi, founder of the Hungarian National Library
  Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian Field Marshal
  Josip Jelačić, Croatian Ban and Austrian Field Marshal
  Tivadar Puskás, Hungarian inventor
  Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna
  Olivier Marquis de Bacquehem, Austrian Minister of Commerce
  Wilhelm Carl Gustav von Doderer, Austrian architect
  Alfonso XII of Spain, King of Spain
  Konstantin Jireček, Czech diplomat
  Peter Altenberg, Austrian writer
  Wlodimir Ledóchowski, General of the Jesuits
  István Bethlen, Hungarian Prime Minister
  Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian scientist
  Kazimierz Twardowski, Polish philosopher
  Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Hungarian paleontologist
  Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Austrian physicist
  Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist
  Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Austrian author
  Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist
  Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the International Paneuropean Union
  Egon Brunswik, Austro-American psychologist
  Max Perutz, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry
  Hans Hass, pioneer of aquatic research
  Peter Zinner, Academy Award winner
  Werner Fasslabend, Austrian Minister of Defense
  Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice
  Ernst H. Gombrich, Austrian art historian who was the most important of the 20th century
  Ole Otto Paus, Norwegian General
  Dimitrios Droutsas, former Greek foreign minister
  Titu Maiorescu, former Prime Minister of Romania
  Richard Nickl, mathematician
  Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner 
  Paul Henreid, Austrian actor
caption: Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1857-1885)
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