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John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

1604 - 1679

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John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen [ˈjoːɦɑ ˈmʌurɪts fɑ ˈnɑsʌu ˈsiɣə(n)]; German: Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen; Portuguese: João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen; 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679), called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and (from 1664) Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen has received more than 144,698 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen is the 3,803rd most popular politician (up from 3,939th in 2019), the 1,037th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,084th in 2019) and the 300th most popular German Politician.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen is most famous for being the founder of the Dutch West India Company.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ranks 3,803 out of 19,576Before him are Carolina Herrera, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Lambert of Italy, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and Tantamani. After him are Boniface Alexandre, Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Otto, Duke of Austria, Sancho VI of Navarre, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, and Qasar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1604, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ranks 5Before him are Osman II, John IV of Portugal, Johann Rudolf Glauber, and Tokugawa Iemitsu. After him are İslâm III Giray, Claudia de' Medici, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Zheng Zhilong, Abraham Bosse, and Catherine of Brandenburg. Among people deceased in 1679, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ranks 7Before him are Thomas Hobbes, Jan Steen, Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Joost van den Vondel, and John of Austria the Younger. After him are Marie de Rohan, Willem van Aelst, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Francesco Barberini, and Margherita de' Medici.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ranks 1,037 out of 7,253Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Karin Schubert (1944), John, Elector of Saxony (1468), Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), and Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690). After him are Godigisel (359), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), John McEnroe (1959), Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759), Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835), and Johann Mattheson (1681).

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