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Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

1687 - 1757

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Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (26 March [O.S. 16 March] 1687 – 28 June 1757) was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 1713 to 1740. She was the mother of Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia). At the time of Sophia's birth, her father was merely the son of a German prince, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover has received more than 648,107 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover is the 124th most popular nobleman (up from 149th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Germany (up from 613th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ranks 124 out of 1,415. Before her are Raymond III, Count of Tripoli, Odo of France, Mariana of Austria, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, and Queen Fabiola of Belgium. After her are Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Béla II of Hungary, Harald II of Denmark, and Robert the Strong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ranks 1. After her are John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Balthasar Neumann, Francesco Geminiani, Giambattista Pittoni, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Robert Simson, and William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1757, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ranks 5. Before her are Domenico Scarlatti, Osman III, Maria Josepha of Austria, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. After her are Rosalba Carriera, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Johann Stamitz, Siraj ud-Daulah, Robert-François Damiens, 7th Dalai Lama, and David Hartley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ranks 550 out of 7,253. Before her are Wilhelm List (1880), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Kurt Student (1890), Willi Stoph (1914), and Robert Ritter von Greim (1892). After her are Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Kurt Weill (1900), Hans Jonas (1903), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Caroline of Baden (1776), and August Schleicher (1821).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ranks 13. Before her are Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731), and Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490). After her are Robert the Strong (900), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869), Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), and Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (1414).

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