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Maurice, Elector of Saxony

1521 - 1553

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Maurice (21 March 1521 – 9 July 1553) was Duke (1541–47) and later Elector (1547–53) of Saxony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice, Elector of Saxony has received more than 160,979 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Maurice, Elector of Saxony is the 3,143rd most popular politician (up from 3,244th in 2019), the 842nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 878th in 2019) and the 232nd most popular German Politician.

Maurice, elector of Saxony is most famous for his successful military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Maurice, Elector of Saxony ranks 3,143 out of 19,576. Before him are Moïse Tshombe, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Emperor Cheng of Han, Louis II of Anjou, and Polyxena. After him are Gladwyn Jebb, Emperor Zhezong, Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Caroline of Brunswick, Ladislaus III of Hungary, and Abbas III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1521, Maurice, Elector of Saxony ranks 5. Before him are Pope Urban VII, Takeda Shingen, Peter Canisius, and Christina of Denmark. After him are Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu, Andrew Avellino, Xu Wei, Richard Chancellor, Philippe de Monte, Antoine Caron, and Thomas Wyatt the Younger. Among people deceased in 1553, Maurice, Elector of Saxony ranks 9. Before him are Edward VI of England, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Michael Servetus, Şehzade Cihangir, Pedro de Valdivia, and Charles III, Duke of Savoy. After him are Girolamo Fracastoro, Sinan Pasha, Lucrezia de' Medici, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga, and Wolf Huber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maurice, Elector of Saxony ranks 842 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Felix Magath (1953), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), and Hugo Junkers (1859). After him are Hans Fallada (1893), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), Gottfried Semper (1803), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), and Richard Baer (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Maurice, Elector of Saxony ranks 232. Before him are Thomas Bach (1953), George, King of Saxony (1832), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Otto Ernst Remer (1912), and Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505). After him are Caroline of Brunswick (1768), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Richard Baer (1911), Joseph Berchtold (1897), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), and Martin Schulz (1955).

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