MILITARY PERSONNEL

Maurice de Saxe

1696 - 1750

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Maurice, Count of Saxony (German: Hermann Moritz von Sachsen, French: Maurice de Saxe; 28 October 1696 – 20 November 1750) was a notable soldier, officer and a famed military commander of the 18th century. The illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony, he initially served in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, then the Imperial Army, before finally entering French service. De Saxe became a Marshal and even Marshal General of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice de Saxe has received more than 359,167 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice de Saxe is the 286th most popular military personnel (down from 264th in 2019), the 663rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 604th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Military Personnel.

Maurice de Saxe was a French military commander who is most famous for his role in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maurice de Saxe ranks 286 out of 2,058. Before him are Usama ibn Zayd, Lothar Rendulic, Roman Shukhevych, Federico da Montefeltro, Titus Labienus, and Nicolas Oudinot. After him are Juan Pujol García, Gerhard Barkhorn, Bahram Chobin, Wang Jian, Jiang Wei, and Georges Picquart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Maurice de Saxe ranks 6. Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Augustus III of Poland, Alphonsus Liguori, and Abram Petrovich Gannibal. After him are Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Melchior Molter, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Francesca Cuzzoni. Among people deceased in 1750, Maurice de Saxe ranks 4. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and John V of Portugal. After him are Emperor Sakuramachi, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Rachel Ruysch, Giuseppe Sammartini, Vasily Tatishchev, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, and Apostolo Zeno.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maurice de Saxe ranks 663 out of 7,253. Before him are Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), and Werner Sombart (1863). After him are Karl Carstens (1914), Werner von Haeften (1908), Otto Grotewohl (1894), Manfred Eigen (1927), Berti Vogts (1946), and Georg Wittig (1897).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Maurice de Saxe ranks 61. Before him are Karl Wolff (1900), Otto Günsche (1917), Erich Hoepner (1886), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), and Werner Mölders (1913). After him are Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Kurt Meyer (1910), Walther Wenck (1900), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Erich Priebke (1913), and Arthur Nebe (1894).

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