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Christian IX of Denmark

1818 - 1906

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Christian IX (8 April 1818 – 29 January 1906) was King of Denmark from 15 November 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. A younger son of Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Christian grew up in the Duchy of Schleswig as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448. Although having close family ties to the Danish royal family, he was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish throne. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian IX of Denmark is the 189th most popular politician (up from 492nd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Germany (up from 137th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Politician.

Christian IX of Denmark is most famous for being the King of Denmark from 1863-1906. He was a member of the House of Glücksburg, the Danish Royal Family.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Christian IX of Denmark ranks 189 out of 19,576. Before him are Bayezid II, Bayezid I, Harry S. Truman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Christina, Queen of Sweden, and Murad I. After him are Puyi, Simón Bolívar, Philip IV of France, Pepin the Short, Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Napoleon II.

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Among people born in 1818, Christian IX of Denmark ranks 3. Before him are Karl Marx, and James Prescott Joule. After him are Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, and Tewodros II. Among people deceased in 1906, Christian IX of Denmark ranks 4. Before him are Paul Cézanne, Pierre Curie, and Henrik Ibsen. After him are Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgy Gapon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian IX of Denmark ranks 49 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), and Werner Heisenberg (1901). After him are Robert Koch (1843), Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Thomas Mann (1875), Gerd Müller (1945), and William I, German Emperor (1797).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Christian IX of Denmark ranks 12. Before him are Frederick the Great (1712), Angela Merkel (1954), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Heinrich Himmler (1900), and Hermann Göring (1893). After him are William I, German Emperor (1797), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), and Helmut Kohl (1930).

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