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Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

1868 - 1914

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Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg has received more than 2,012,932 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg is the 71st most popular companion (down from 61st in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Germany (down from 265th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Companion.

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg is most famous for being the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Sophie and Franz Ferdinand were assassinated in 1914, which led to World War I.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ranks 71 out of 784Before her are Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Poppaea Sabina. After her are Maria Feodorovna, Sawda bint Zamʿa, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Hecuba, Sita, and Sepp Dietrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ranks 10Before her are Miklós Horthy, Abdulmejid II, Karl Landsteiner, Constantine I of Greece, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. After her are Emanuel Lasker, Gichin Funakoshi, Fuad I of Egypt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Peter Behrens. Among people deceased in 1914, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ranks 8Before her are Pope Pius X, Charles Albert Gobat, Bertha von Suttner, Frédéric Mistral, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Paul Heyse. After her are George Westinghouse, Carol I of Romania, Georg Trakl, Jean Jaurès, Ismail Gaspirali, and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ranks 284 out of 7,253Before her are Max Horkheimer (1895), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Anton Drexler (1884), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Klaus Barbie (1913), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945). After her are Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Irma Grese (1923), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Ernst Ruska (1906).

Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ranks 9Before her are Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Anne of Cleves (1515), Magda Goebbels (1901), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691). After her are Sepp Dietrich (1892), Katharina von Bora (1498), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), and Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724).