Joseph II was born in Vienna in 1741. He was brought up by a Hungarian trainer. He was against with religion as a reaction to the extreme religious inspirations done by trainers. He learned a lot of languages. He took law lessons from Professor Martini, and he accepted the opinions and thoughts of French philosophers and adopted them as his own. He became the Emperor after the death of his father. He tried to regulate everything in the country. He usually went abroad. He made reforms in his country. He limited the competence of Pope. He brought advanced educated officials instead of regional government representatives and had the same type of management departments founded in states. He laid down laws for military reforms in order to provide the foundation of a national army. In this time, Katherine II the Czarina of Russia incited Joseph II against Ottomans. Joseph II gave up the reforms, since he was afraid of the riots that could have been in states. Joseph died in 20^th February 1790 after turning back from Turkish Wars as tired.

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