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Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

1658 - 1716

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Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (Jan Wellem in Low German, English: John William; 19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716) of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine (1690–1716), Duke of Neuburg (1690–1716), Duke of Jülich and Berg (1679–1716), and Duke of Upper Palatinate and Cham (1707–1714). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine has received more than 180,241 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine is the 3,875th most popular politician (down from 3,655th in 2019), the 1,048th most popular biography from Germany (down from 999th in 2019) and the 304th most popular German Politician.

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine is most famous for being the first of the House of Wittelsbach to rule over the Palatinate and Bavaria.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ranks 3,875 out of 19,576. Before him are Stanisław Żółkiewski, Haakon V of Norway, Ma Teng, Catherine of Bosnia, João Goulart, and Paolo Gentiloni. After him are William Ewart Gladstone, Alaungpaya, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Antiochus VI Dionysus, and Demetris Christofias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1658, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ranks 3. Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, and Mary of Modena. After him are John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Ogata Kōrin, Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Nicolas Coustou, Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Among people deceased in 1716, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ranks 3. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Louis de Montfort. After him are Engelbert Kaempfer, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Ogata Kōrin, Roger Cotes, Anthim the Iberian, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, and Charles de La Fosse.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ranks 1,048 out of 7,253. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), Johann Mattheson (1681), Marie of Prussia (1825), Carl Ludwig (1816), Ernst Barlach (1870), and Dagmar of Bohemia (1186). After him are Erich Kempka (1910), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Manfred Rommel (1928), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ranks 304. Before him are Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690), John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604), Godigisel (359), Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), and Marie of Prussia (1825). After him are Manfred Rommel (1928), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), and Oswald Pohl (1892).

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