Alfred von Arneth
Alfred Ritter von Arneth (10 July 181930 July 1897) was an
Austrian
historian. His principal scholarly work is a ten-volume biography of the
Habsburg Empress
Maria Theresa, first published in installments from 1863 to 1879 and still regarded as the standard work on the subject. Born at
Vienna, he was the son of
Joseph Calasanza von Arneth (1791–1863), a well-known historian and archaeologist, who wrote a history of the
Austrian Empire (Vienna, 1827) and several works on
numismatics and brother of Doctor Franz Hektor von Arneth (1818–1907).
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