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MILITARY PERSONNEL

August Karl von Goeben

1816 - 1880

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August Karl Friedrich Christian von Goeben (10 December 1816 – 13 November 1880), was a Prussian infantry general, who won the Iron Cross for his service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Karl von Goeben has received more than 48,705 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). August Karl von Goeben is the 1,197th most popular military personnel (down from 1,101st in 2019), the 3,061st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,846th in 2019) and the 223rd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, August Karl von Goeben ranks 1,197 out of 1,468Before him are Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Walter Short, Ivan Tyulenev, Hubert Lanz, and Erich Marcks. After him are Friedrich Christiansen, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, and Hugh Thompson Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, August Karl von Goeben ranks 27Before him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, John Frederick Kensett, Malwida von Meysenbug, Wazir Akbar Khan, Ion Ghica, and Jan Arnošt Smoler. After him are William Gull, Emanuel Leutze, Dmitry Milyutin, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Jean Cabanis, and August Wilhelm Ambros. Among people deceased in 1880, August Karl von Goeben ranks 35Before him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Arthur Morin, Alphonse Pénaud, Karl Friedrich Lessing, and Peter Wilhelm Lund. After him are Lucretia Mott, Edwin Drake, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Edmond Albius, Manuel Montt, and Nikolay Zinin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Karl von Goeben ranks 3,061 out of 6,142Before him are Herman Rarebell (1949), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846), Erich Marcks (1891), Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926), Johann Niemann (1913), and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599). After him are Benjamin List (1968), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879), Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1761), Friedrich Christiansen (1879), and Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (1539).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, August Karl von Goeben ranks 223Before him are Werner Goldberg (1919), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Fritz Darges (1913), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Josias von Heeringen (1850), and Erich Marcks (1891). After him are Friedrich Christiansen (1879), Karl Koller (1898), Rolf Carls (1885), Eduard Wagner (1894), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), and Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848).