Paul Gautsch, fully Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn (February 26, 1851 Döbling

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 – April 20, 1918) was an Austria

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n political figure who served three times as Minister-President

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Biography

After graduating from the University of Vienna

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, he entered the Ministry of Education.
He was director of the Theresa Academy

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 (1881-85),
and then Austrian Minister of Education under the cabinets of Eduard Graf Taaffe (1885-93) and Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni (1895-97).

He served as Minister President from 1897-98, when he revoked the language ordinances made by Badeni; again in 1904-06, when he prepared the way for universal suffrage; and finally June through October 1911.