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Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

1573 - 1627

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Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, (20 January 1573 – 13 May 1627) was a Danish nobleman. Alexander was born in Sønderborg (German: Sonderburg) in Schleswig, the third son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Because his elder surviving brother chose Ærø as his seat, Alexander received Sønderborg upon their father's death and was in practice its second duke. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg has received more than 283,943 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg is the 9,354th most popular politician (down from 9,319th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 254th in 2019) and the 94th most popular Danish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ranks 9,354 out of 19,576Before him are Olympias II of Epirus, Louis Michel, Andrey II of Vladimir, Demophon of Athens, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, and Paolo Renier. After him are Bronisław Geremek, Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Béla Imrédy, Jacob Hutter, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1573, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ranks 13Before him are Inigo Jones, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Ukita Hideie, Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Sebastiaen Vrancx, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt. After him are Giovanni Battista Crespi, Odoardo Farnese, George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Robert Catesby, and Jagat Gosain. Among people deceased in 1627, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ranks 14Before him are Francesco Maria del Monte, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Olivier van Noort, and Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. After him are Christina of Salm, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Jan Gruter, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Julius Schiller, and Thomas Middleton.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ranks 256 out of 1,032Before him are Holger Nielsen (1866), Valdemar the Young (1209), Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (1603), Paul Gustav Fischer (1860), Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1485), and Princess Louise of Denmark (1726). After him are Morten P. Meldal (1954), Hedwig of Denmark (1581), Harald Nielsen (1941), Per Kirkeby (1938), Richeza of Denmark (1174), and Erik Axelsson Tott (1419).

Among POLITICIANS In Denmark

Among politicians born in Denmark, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ranks 94Before him are Erik Scavenius (1877), Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), Holger Nielsen (1866), Valdemar the Young (1209), and Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (1603). After him are Erik Axelsson Tott (1419), Karl Verner (1846), Margrethe Vestager (1968), Ernst Reuter (1889), Ebbe Schwartz (1901), and H. C. Hansen (1906).