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Frederick the Great

1712 - 1786

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Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include military successes in the Silesian wars, reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick the Great has received more than 7,368,699 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Frederick the Great is the 63rd most popular politician (up from 72nd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 26th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Politician.

Frederick the Great was a Prussian king who is most famous for his military and diplomatic achievements.

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  • 90

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick the Great ranks 63 out of 19,576. Before him are Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal, Joe Biden, Marcus Aurelius, Queen Victoria, and Franklin Pierce. After him are Richard I of England, Selim II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Leon Trotsky, and Fidel Castro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Frederick the Great ranks 2. Before him is Jean-Jacques Rousseau. After him are Count of St. Germain, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Francesco Guardi, Sayat-Nova, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Francesco Algarotti. Among people deceased in 1786, Frederick the Great ranks 1. After him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Peter III of Portugal, Maurice Benyovszky, Franz Benda, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, and Hans Joachim von Zieten.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick the Great ranks 23 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Max Weber (1864), George Frideric Handel (1685), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837). After him are Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), Karl Dönitz (1891), and Anne Frank (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick the Great ranks 4. Before him are Charlemagne (748), Henry Kissinger (1923), and Otto von Bismarck (1815). After him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Angela Merkel (1954), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), and Joseph Goebbels (1897).

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