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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 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 his military successes in the Silesian wars, his reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his 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 6,886,799 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Frederick the Great is the 72nd most popular politician (up from 200th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Germany (up from 59th in 2019) and the 5th 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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  • 88

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  • 13.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick the Great ranks 72 out of 15,577. Before him are James K. Polk, Mary I of England, Hillary Clinton, Huang Xianfan, Muammar Gaddafi, and Ronald Reagan. After him are Darius the Great, Murad III, Ivan the Terrible, Richard I of England, Napoleon III, and Joe Biden.

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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, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Sayat-Nova, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Francesco Algarotti, and Tokugawa Ieshige. Among people deceased in 1786, Frederick the Great ranks 1. After him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Maurice Benyovszky, Peter III of Portugal, Franz Benda, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Eva Ekeblad, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick the Great ranks 26 out of 6,142. Before him are Angela Merkel (1954), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Anne Frank (1929), Henry Kissinger (1923), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), and Friedrich Engels (1820). After him are Johannes Brahms (1833), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Max Planck (1858), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Martin Heidegger (1889), and Hermann Hesse (1877).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick the Great ranks 5. Before him are Charlemagne (748), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Angela Merkel (1954), and Henry Kissinger (1923). After him are Heinrich Himmler (1900), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Joseph Goebbels (1897), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).

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