!!!Goëss, Leopold Graf

b. Graz (Styria), Oct. 28, 1848, 
d. Ebenthal (Carinthia), July 22, 1922, administrative lawyer and 
civil servant; brother of Count Zeno Vinzenz  Goëss, cousin of 
Count Anton  Goëss. President of Bukovina 1893-97, stadtholder  
of Trieste and the Coast 1897-1904, where he promoted industrial 
development but failed in his attempts to counteract nationalist 
tendencies. Member of the ''Herrenhaus '' in 1904. After World War I 
rendered important services in connection with the  Carinthian 
Referendum.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon



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