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Anton Moser
Anton Moser founded a card company in Vienna in 1824. In 1843 the company was taken over by Ferdinand Piatnik Ferdinand Piatnik (14 October 1819 - 20 July 1885) was an Austrian- Hungarian card painter, manufacturer, business magnate, philanthropist and the founder of Piatnik & Söhne. Life Born at Buda, Kingdom of Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary), he was ..., who made the company one of the most successful card manufacturers in the world. References Austrian businesspeople Playing card manufacturers {{Austria-business-bio-stub ...
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Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ...
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Ferdinand Piatnik
Ferdinand Piatnik (14 October 1819 - 20 July 1885) was an Austrian- Hungarian card painter, manufacturer, business magnate, philanthropist and the founder of Piatnik & Söhne. Life Born at Buda, Kingdom of Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary), he was educated in Pozsony (now Bratislava, Slovakia). He bought an Austrian card company from Anton Moser in 1843 and made it to one of the most successful game manufacturing companies in the world. He later married the widow of Anton Moser. After his three sons - Ferdinand, Adolf and Rudolf Paul - entered the company in 1882 it was renamed Ferdinand Piatnik & Söhne. He died in Bad Vöslau Bad Vöslau (; Central Bavarian: ''Bod Vöslau'') is a spa town and Municipality (Austria), municipality in the state of Lower Austria. It is also known as the cradle of the Austrian red wine cultivation. The population, as of 2022, is 12,424. G .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Piatnik, Ferdinand 1819 births 1885 deaths Businesspeople from Austria- ...
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