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Frederick William III of Prussia

1770 - 1840

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Frederick William III (German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved. Frederick William III ruled Prussia during the times of the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick William III of Prussia has received more than 2,038,468 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Frederick William III of Prussia is the 505th most popular politician (up from 556th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 149th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Politician.

Frederick William III of Prussia is most famous for being the last King of Prussia and the first Emperor of the German Empire. He was born on October 27, 1770 and died on June 7, 1840.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick William III of Prussia ranks 505 out of 19,576Before him are Nurhaci, Galerius, Alfred Rosenberg, Murad V, Honorius, and Isabella II of Spain. After him are Władysław II Jagiełło, John Adams, Zenobia, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Yaroslav the Wise, and Christian VII of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Frederick William III of Prussia ranks 3Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. After him are Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Louis-Nicolas Davout, William Wordsworth, François Gérard, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Princess Carolina of Parma, Theodoros Kolokotronis, and Anton Reicha. Among people deceased in 1840, Frederick William III of Prussia ranks 3Before him are Niccolò Paganini, and Caspar David Friedrich. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Lucien Bonaparte, Emperor Kōkaku, Siméon Denis Poisson, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jacques MacDonald, and Louis de Bonald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick William III of Prussia ranks 142 out of 7,253Before him are Max von Laue (1879), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Meister Eckhart (1260), Otto Hahn (1879), Max Müller (1823), and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805). After him are Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Ernst Röhm (1887), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), and Frederick William I of Prussia (1688).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick William III of Prussia ranks 36Before him are Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Augustus II the Strong (1670), Leopold I of Belgium (1790), Lothair I (795), George I of Great Britain (1660), and Christian IX of Denmark (1818). After him are Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Friedrich Ebert (1871), Agrippina the Younger (15), Franz von Papen (1879), and Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795).