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George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

1605 - 1661

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George II of Hesse-Darmstadt, German: Georg II von Hessen-Darmstadt (17 March 1605, in Darmstadt – 11 June 1661) was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1626 to 1661. He was the son of Ludwig V and Magdalene of Brandenburg. He married Sophia Eleonore of Saxony on 1 April 1627. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt has received more than 111,508 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt is the 6,609th most popular politician (down from 6,603rd in 2019), the 1,834th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,889th in 2019) and the 558th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ranks 6,609 out of 15,577Before him are Carlos Castillo Armas, Nicolas Hayek, Maxwell D. Taylor, Nikolai Krylenko, Margaret Sambiria, and Setepenre. After him are Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Frederick V, Duke of Swabia, Aleksandar Tsankov, Tigranes IV, Pierre Basile, and Emperor Gao of Southern Qi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ranks 12Before him are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Giacomo Carissimi, Adriaen Brouwer, Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, and Semyon Dezhnev. After him are Thomas Browne, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Antonio Bertali, and Ismaël Bullialdus. Among people deceased in 1661, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ranks 8Before him are Shunzhi Emperor, Girard Desargues, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Vasile Lupu, and Andrea Sacchi. After him are Jan Fyt, Louis Couperin, Martino Martini, Zheng Zhilong, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, and Guru Har Rai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ranks 1,834 out of 6,142Before him are Willi Hennig (1913), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Georg Ratzinger (1924), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), and Margaret Sambiria (1230). After him are Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Axel Springer (1912), Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and Benno (1010).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ranks 558Before him are Franz Six (1909), Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), Hans-Gert Pöttering (1945), and Margaret Sambiria (1230). After him are Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667), Walter Buch (1883), Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771), Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780), Fritz Fischer (1912), and Jürgen Moltmann (1926).