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Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern

1715 - 1797

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Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (8 November 1715 – 13 January 1797) was Queen of Prussia (Queen in Prussia until 1772) and Electress of Brandenburg as the wife of Frederick the Great. She was the longest-serving Prussian queen, with a tenure of more than 46 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern has received more than 324,685 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern is the 193rd most popular companion (up from 202nd in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from Germany (up from 753rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Companion.

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern was the daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. She was born in 1718 and died in 1780. She was married to Frederick II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She was most famous for her correspondence with Voltaire.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern ranks 193 out of 784. Before her are Elizabeth of Austria, Maud of Wales, Joan the Lame, Hümaşah Sultan, Anne of Denmark, and Maria Anna of Austria. After her are Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Constance of Austria, Philippa of Lancaster, Joanna la Beltraneja, Jabir ibn Abd Allah, and Amélie of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern ranks 3. Before her are Peter II of Russia, and Claude Adrien Helvétius. After her are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Robert-François Damiens, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Dorothea Erxleben, Ewald Christian von Kleist, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1797, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern ranks 8. Before her are Frederick William II of Prussia, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, François-Noël Babeuf, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, and James Hutton. After her are Lazare Hoche, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Vilna Gaon, Joseph Wright of Derby, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Horace Walpole.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern ranks 729 out of 7,253. Before her are Anneliese Michel (1952), Albert Göring (1895), Hans von Bülow (1830), Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843), Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865), and Walther Wenck (1900). After her are Max Beckmann (1884), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), Peter Parler (1330), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern ranks 29. Before her are Cunigunde of Luxembourg (978), Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), and Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779). After her are Maria Barbara Bach (1684), Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Sophie of Württemberg (1818), and Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666).

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