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Michael von Melas

1729 - 1806

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Michael Friedrich Benedikt Baron von Melas (12 May 1729 – 31 May 1806) was a Transylvanian-born field marshal of Greek descent for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Radeln, Transylvania, Ottoman Empire (nowadays Roadeș, part of Bunești commune, Brașov County, Romania) in 1729 and joined the Austrian Army at age 17. He served in the Seven Years' War as aide de camp for Leopold Josef Graf Daun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael von Melas has received more than 90,983 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Michael von Melas is the 1,228th most popular military personnel (down from 1,170th in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Romania (up from 211th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Romanian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Michael von Melas ranks 1,228 out of 2,058. Before him are Pyotr Koshevoy, Cornelius Fuscus, Tatikios, Victor Capesius, Rudolf Maister, and Sō Yoshitoshi. After him are Gustav Lombard, Maciej Sulkiewicz, Taira no Munemori, Rash Behari Bose, Achillas, and Hannibal Gisco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Michael von Melas ranks 21. Before him are Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Anders Chydenius, Pierre André de Suffren, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. After him are Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Michael Denis, and Ivan Argunov. Among people deceased in 1806, Michael von Melas ranks 32. Before him are Vicente Martín y Soler, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, George Stubbs, Federico Gravina, Fra Diavolo, and Horatio Gates. After him are Gim Hongdo, Timothy Dexter, Jean Joseph Mounier, Eugenios Voulgaris, Charles James Fox, and Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Michael von Melas ranks 198 out of 844. Before him are Elek Schwartz (1908), Helmuth Duckadam (1959), Nicolae Paulescu (1869), Nicolae Rădescu (1874), Patriarch Miron of Romania (1868), and Benjamin Fondane (1898). After him are Endre Kabos (1906), Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Ferenc Kazinczy (1759), Tamás Bakócz (1442), Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887), and Michael II Apafi (1676).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Romania

Among military personnels born in Romania, Michael von Melas ranks 7. Before him are Alexander Löhr (1885), Petre Dumitrescu (1882), Ion Mihai Pacepa (1928), Artur Phleps (1881), Constantin Prezan (1861), and Arthur Arz von Straußenburg (1857). After him are Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia (1859), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), and Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten (1860).

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