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Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

1745 - 1804

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Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Gotha, 30 January 1745 – Gotha, 20 April 1804) was the reigning Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg from 1772 to 1804. He was the third but second surviving son of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg has received more than 82,486 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg is the 7,321st most popular politician (up from 8,219th in 2019), the 2,013th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,334th in 2019) and the 598th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 7,321 out of 19,576Before him are William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, François de Charette, Enrique Peña Nieto, Ronglu, Eleanor of Castile, and Dalia Itzik. After him are Alcetas I of Epirus, Viktor Medvedchuk, Yvonne de Gaulle, Margaret of Durazzo, Adherbal, and Manuel Zelaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 22Before him are Şahin Giray, Valentin Haüy, Casimir Pulaski, Gregory V of Constantinople, George Atwood, and Jens Juel. After him are Denis Fonvizin, Maxim Berezovsky, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Isaac Titsingh, Bodawpaya, and Caspar Wessel. Among people deceased in 1804, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 18Before him are Jean-Charles Pichegru, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jazzar Pasha, Antoine Baumé, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, and Johann Adam Hiller. After him are 8th Dalai Lama, Martin Vahl, Georges Cadoudal, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Aagje Deken, and Carlo Allioni.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 2,013 out of 7,253Before him are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Agnes of Hesse (1527), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), and William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629). After him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Walter Schröder (1932), Augustin Bea (1881), and Karl Frenzel (1911).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 598Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Agnes of Hesse (1527), and William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629). After him are William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), and Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855).