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Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

1740 - 1817

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Leopold III Frederick Franz, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (10 August 1740 – 9 August 1817), known as "Prince Franz" or "Father Franz", was a German prince of the House of Ascania. From 1751 until 1807 he was reigning prince of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau and from 1807 the first Duke of the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau. A strong supporter of the Enlightenment, Leopold undertook numerous reforms in his principality and made Anhalt-Dessau one of the most modern and prosperous of the small German states. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau has received more than 76,041 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau is the 8,704th most popular politician (up from 8,989th in 2019), the 2,489th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,597th in 2019) and the 751st most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 8,704 out of 15,577. Before him are Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Basil of Trebizond, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, Massimo D'Alema, Bah Ndaw, and Prince Francis, Count of Trapani. After him are Princess Wanda, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Beata Szydło, Emperor En'yū, Anne Lister, and Andrei Bubnov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 17. Before him are Johann van Beethoven, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, and James Boswell. After him are Matthias Claudius, Juan Ignacio Molina, Anders Johan Lexell, John Latham, Johan Tobias Sergel, and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar. Among people deceased in 1817, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 26. Before him are Duke Louis of Württemberg, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, Jean-André Deluc, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Ibrahim Bey. After him are Andrea Appiani, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, William Gregor, and Jean-Sifrein Maury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 2,489 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856), Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799), Christian Daniel Rauch (1777), Johannes Fabricius (1587), and Carl Hilpert (1888). After him are Ottmar Walter (1924), Gerhard Schröder (1910), Carlos Marín (1968), Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922), Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), and Stephen the Posthumous (1236).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 751. Before him are Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Franz von Sickingen (1481), Princess Marie of Prussia (1855), Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1827), Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856), and Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848). After him are Gerhard Schröder (1910), Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1591), Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271), and Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1515).

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