Talk:Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

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Bad things[edit]

What were some of the bad things that Joseph did? Was he a better Enlightened Despot than the others? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.105.213.102 (talk) 15:12, 25 April 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was planning on writing an article about his 1782 edict of tolerance concerning the Jews. anyone have any thoughts?--Alhutch 22:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, went ahead and wrote it. It's here if anyone wants to take a look and help expand it....not that anyone reads this talk page or anything :-) Alhutch 23:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Amazingly negative article[edit]

This is an amazingly negative article and I believe that it deserves to be labeled as POV. For a comparison, see the Czech wikipedia text about this leader: [1]

He was one of the most popular - and arguably achieved - Bohemian kings ever, credited for religious tolerance, abolishing of serfdom, effective end of censorship, dramatic improvement of the rights of Jews and peasants, the creation of a working system of hospitals, functioning secret police, office hours for new government's offices, reforms of education, limitation of the Catholic Church's control over the society.

Joseph II is the main reason why the first name "Josef" became so popular in the Czech lands. I think that someone familiar with these matters should improve the article and remove the negative bias. It looks like it was written by a Catholic bigot who loves serfdom, absence of hospitals, and educated leaders who speak many languages (Joseph spoke Czech). Please fix it. --Lumidek (talk) 15:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

Why is the House of Habsburg-Lorraine infobox opening in the middle othe article? It is disruptive to the article's flow of text.-- Jack1755 (talk) 18:28, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. No idea why it took so long.--Kross ^Transmit? 04:06, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A few corrections[edit]

1. The article stated that "Austria was friendly to Russia though trying to remove Romania from Russian influence." At that time, there wasn't a Romanian country. Transylvania and Bukovina were part of the Habsburg Empire, Bessarabia of the Russian one and Dobrudja of the Ottoman state. Wallachia and Moldavia were vassal states of the Ottomans. The Russians were trying to gather more influence in the former two, which were known then as the Danubian Principalities. I have changed it to reflect this. 2. Also, I have changed the "Emancipation of the Hungarian peasantry". It wasn't a Hungarian peasatry, since the Kingdom of Hungary (part of the Habsburg Empire) had territories inhabited, besides the Hungarians, by Romanians, Serbs, Croats, Saxons, etc. It would be more correct to say "Emancipation of the peasants from the Kingdom of Hungary" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flavius T (talk • contribs) 01:25, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Epitaph[edit]

Hello, "He is buried in tomb number 42 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. He asked that his epitaph read: "Here lies Joseph II, who failed in all he undertook."" - I can't find anywhere, how goes the epitaph in the original language? And what was the original language, german, latin, french? --VillemVillemVillem (talk) 14:43, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Legitimate King of Hungary[edit]

The article notes that he was never crowned King of Hungary, but should it also be mentioned that many Hungarians do not consider him to be a legitimate king because he was not crowned? Emperor001 (talk) 13:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Beware the angry child[edit]

There is an angry child guarding this article, reverting any attempts at improving it. Don't even try. It will just revert it back. You have been warned. Martin J. Němeček (talk) 17:15, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If your sources are failing verification, you have only your own editing to blame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.169.22.138 (talk) 07:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Count of Artois[edit]

The page Count of Artois lists him as that 1780-90, but I see no mention on this page at all of that title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44b8:4146:600:2119:fb6f:9fe9:d2f0 (talk) 21:17, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]