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Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

1811 - 1890

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Empress Augusta (Born Princess Maria Luise Augusta Catherina of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; 30 September 1811 – 7 January 1890), was Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress as the wife of William I, German Emperor. A member of the Grand Ducal House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and closely related to the Russian Imperial House of Romanov through her mother Maria Pavlovna, in June 1829 Augusta married Prince William of Prussia. The marriage was tense; Wilhelm actually wanted to marry his cousin, Elisa Radziwiłł, who was judged to be unsuitable by the Prussian court, and the political views and intellectual interests of the two spouses were also far apart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach has received more than 427,854 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is the 147th most popular companion (up from 183rd in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Germany (up from 704th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Companion.

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is most famous for being the wife of Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 147 out of 784Before her are Asiya, Maria Luisa of Savoy, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Margherita of Savoy, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria. After her are Charlotte of Savoy, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Claude of France, Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland, and Olga Constantinovna of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 9Before her are Évariste Galois, Théophile Gautier, Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Urbain Le Verrier, and Isaac Singer. After her are William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vissarion Belinsky, Louis Blanc, François Achille Bazaine, and Elisha Otis. Among people deceased in 1890, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 12Before her are William III of the Netherlands, Amadeo I of Spain, César Franck, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Joseph Merrick, and Henri Nestlé. After her are Richard Francis Burton, William Kemmler, Niels Gade, John Henry Newman, Princess Zorka of Montenegro, and Louis Le Prince.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 581 out of 7,253Before her are Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817), Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Horst Wessel (1907), Otto Rehhagel (1938), Friedrich List (1789), and Dietrich Eckart (1868). After her are Bert Hellinger (1925), Walter Scheel (1919), Roman Herzog (1934), Robert the Strong (900), Widukind (755), and Andreas Brehme (1960).

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