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Frederick Augustus II of Saxony

1797 - 1854

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Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II.; 18 May 1797 in Dresden – 9 August 1854 in Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony – younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony – by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony has received more than 266,358 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Frederick Augustus II of Saxony is the 2,464th most popular politician (up from 2,484th in 2019), the 659th most popular biography from Germany (up from 677th in 2019) and the 177th most popular German Politician.

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony is most famous for being the last King of Poland.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 2,464 out of 19,576. Before him are Eumenes II, Magnentius, Ieng Sary, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sajida Talfah, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus. After him are Pleistarchus, Yazid II, Maria Christina of Austria, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Anedjib, and Joscelin I, Count of Edessa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 13. Before him are Adolphe Thiers, Hiroshige, Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, and Charles Lyell. After him are Alfred de Vigny, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Paul Delaroche, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ferdinand von Wrangel, and Maria Isabel of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1854, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 3. Before him are Georg Ohm, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. After him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Abbas I of Egypt, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, and Zénaïde Bonaparte.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 659 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Mölders (1913), Andreas Baader (1943), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), and Rudolf Bultmann (1884). After him are Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Werner Sombart (1863), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Karl Carstens (1914), and Werner von Haeften (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 177. Before him are John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Erich Mielke (1907), Erich Koch (1896), Manfred Gerlach (1928), Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), and John of Saxony (1801). After him are George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Karl Carstens (1914), Werner von Haeften (1908), Otto Grotewohl (1894), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), and Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636).

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