Christian von Ehrenfels
Christian von Ehrenfels was born on 20 June 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wien.
Christiane Amanpour
Amanpour was born in London, England, the daughter of Patricia Anne (Hill) and Mohammad Taghi Amanpour. Her father was Persian, from Tehran; he was from a wealthy family, and was the great-great-great-grandson of Mirza Mohammad Taghi, the Governor of Isfahan in the 1840s. Christiane's mother was English, and was born in Paris, France, to English parents, from Ealing, Middlesex. Amanpour was raised in Tehran until age eleven. Her father was Muslim and her mother was Catholic. She is natively fluent in English and Persian and married a Jewish American.