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Well, Tesla really was a Serbian - his father was in fact, a Serbian Orthodox priest, so the documentation on this is clear. Of course, since he was born into

by alushta 14y ago

Well, Tesla really was a Serbian - his father was in fact, a Serbian Orthodox priest, so the documentation on this is clear. Of course, since he was born into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and studied in Graz, we might as well let the Austrians take credit, as the Austrians really need it (what's Austria's greatest accomplishment? convincing the world that Mozart is Austrian, and Hitler is German!) But really, he did his best work as an American, so USA! USA! USA! :)

surement 14y ago
Freud?
- alushta 14y ago
  Nah, Freud is a Galician Jew, not an Austrian. :)
JumpCrisscross 14y ago
Seriously? Economics (von Mises? Morgenstern?), engineering (Ferdinand Porsche? Valier?) philosophy (Popper?), physics (Boltzman? Doppler? Mach? Pauli?), mathematics (heard of this guy Gödel?), genetics (Mendel?), etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians
- DrJokepu 14y ago
  Von Neumann was Jewish, Hungarian and later, American. He was never an Austrian.
  - JumpCrisscross 14y ago
    You are correct - edited. I had always learned of him as an Austro-Hugarian/American :).
- softbuilder 14y ago
  Don't forget Scwartzenegger
  - alushta 14y ago
    Well, since his favorite phrase is "Hasta la vista, baby", and lives in California, he's obviously a Mexican! :)
- alushta 14y ago
  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! :)
  - Drbble 14y ago
    > Karl Popper: Jew If you are going to assert that Jews cannot be Austrian, you may as well go all the way and give Hitler credit for being Austrian.
  - JumpCrisscross 14y ago
    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.

by alushta 14y ago

surement 14y ago

Freud?

alushta 14y ago
Nah, Freud is a Galician Jew, not an Austrian. :)

JumpCrisscross 14y ago

Seriously? Economics (von Mises? Morgenstern?), engineering (Ferdinand Porsche? Valier?) philosophy (Popper?), physics (Boltzman? Doppler? Mach? Pauli?), mathematics (heard of this guy Gödel?), genetics (Mendel?), etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians

DrJokepu 14y ago
Von Neumann was Jewish, Hungarian and later, American. He was never an Austrian.
- JumpCrisscross 14y ago
  You are correct - edited. I had always learned of him as an Austro-Hugarian/American :).
softbuilder 14y ago
Don't forget Scwartzenegger
- alushta 14y ago
  Well, since his favorite phrase is "Hasta la vista, baby", and lives in California, he's obviously a Mexican! :)
alushta 14y ago
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! :)
- Drbble 14y ago
  > Karl Popper: Jew If you are going to assert that Jews cannot be Austrian, you may as well go all the way and give Hitler credit for being Austrian.
- JumpCrisscross 14y ago
  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.