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Gerhard von Scharnhorst

1755 - 1813

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Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813) was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief of the Prussian General Staff, he was noted for his military theories, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard von Scharnhorst has received more than 361,938 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Gerhard von Scharnhorst is the 373rd most popular military personnel (up from 389th in 2019), the 878th most popular biography from Germany (up from 897th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Military Personnel.

Gerhard von Scharnhorst was a Prussian general who helped to modernize the Prussian army. He is most famous for his military reforms that helped to defeat Napoleon's army in 1806.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gerhard von Scharnhorst ranks 373 out of 2,058. Before him are Lü Meng, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Leonid Govorov, François Achille Bazaine, and Ashraf Marwan. After him are Giovanni Messe, Zhang He, Luigi Cadorna, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gerhard von Scharnhorst ranks 13. Before him are Samuel Hahnemann, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, James Parkinson, and Giovanni Battista Viotti. After him are Anthony of Saxony, Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, François Joseph Lefebvre, Natalia Alexeievna, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, and Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Among people deceased in 1813, Gerhard von Scharnhorst ranks 7. Before him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mikhail Kutuzov, Józef Poniatowski, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, and André Grétry. After him are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, Rose Bertin, and George Shaw.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard von Scharnhorst ranks 878 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Huber (1937), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), Hildegard Knef (1925), David Fabricius (1564), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728). After him are William II of Württemberg (1848), Andrew Wiles (1953), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Gotthard Kettler (1517), Eugen Dühring (1833), and Johannes Trithemius (1462).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Gerhard von Scharnhorst ranks 76. Before him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Günther Prien (1908), and Levin August von Bennigsen (1745). After him are Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Günther Rall (1918), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Reinhard Scheer (1863), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905).

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