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Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

1771 - 1815

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Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815), was a German prince and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Oels. Nicknamed "The Black Duke", he was a military officer who led the Black Brunswickers against French domination in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel has received more than 262,048 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel is the 6,651st most popular politician (down from 6,600th in 2019), the 1,850th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,886th in 2019) and the 561st most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ranks 6,651 out of 15,577Before him are Miloš Jakeš, Robert Maxwell, Gjúki, Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria, Peter II of Courtenay, and Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona. After him are Íngrid Betancourt, Taihō Kōki, Deng Yingchao, Ed Miliband, Peter II of Bulgaria, and Francisco Craveiro Lopes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ranks 17Before him are Alois Senefelder, Jean-Andoche Junot, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Mungo Park, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Ferdinando Paer. After him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Mikhail Miloradovich, Rahel Varnhagen, Jean Rapp, and Johann Baptist Cramer. Among people deceased in 1815, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ranks 15Before him are Carsten Niebuhr, Guillaume Brune, José María Morelos, 9th Dalai Lama, Smithson Tennant, and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are James Gillray, Torii Kiyonaga, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Matthias Claudius, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Carl Johan Adlercreutz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ranks 1,850 out of 6,142Before him are Judith of Swabia (1054), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Fritz Witt (1908), and William Dieterle (1893). After him are Reinhard Keiser (1674), Maria Riva (1924), Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780), Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Fritz Fischer (1912), and Jürgen Moltmann (1926).

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