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Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland

1733 - 1796

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Prince Karl Christian Joseph of Saxony, also anglicized as Charles of Saxony (13 July 1733 – 16 June 1796), was a German prince of the House of Wettin. He was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1758 to 1763. Born in Dresden, he was the fifth son of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Maria Josepha of Austria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland has received more than 64,455 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland is the 6,753rd most popular politician (down from 5,867th in 2019), the 1,841st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,641st in 2019) and the 535th most popular German Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 6,753 out of 19,576. Before him are Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Boniface II, Marquis of Montferrat, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Walther Hewel, and Hatuey. After him are Bonosus, Yesün Temür, Viola Amherd, Carl Adolph Agardh, Birutė, and Ram Baran Yadav.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 9. Before him are Magtymguly Pyragy, Christoph Martin Wieland, Siraj ud-Daulah, Carsten Niebuhr, Hubert Robert, and Jean-Charles de Borda. After him are Gottfried van Swieten, Daniel Solander, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Maruyama Ōkyo, George Read, and Philip Carteret. Among people deceased in 1796, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 12. Before him are James Macpherson, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Johann Daniel Titius, Thomas Reid, Shahrokh Shah, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. After him are Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, François de Charette, Velu Nachiyar, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 1,841 out of 7,253. Before him are Herbert von Bismarck (1849), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Eugen Fink (1905), Ernst Neufert (1900), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), and Walther Hewel (1904). After him are Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460), Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706), and Paul Drude (1863).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 535. Before him are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902), Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (1072), Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Herbert von Bismarck (1849), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), and Walther Hewel (1904). After him are Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1460), Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (1390), Julius Dorpmüller (1869), Charles II, Elector Palatine (1651), and Johannes R. Becher (1891).

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