NOBLEMAN

William, Duke of Brunswick

1806 - 1884

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William, Duke of Brunswick (German: Wilhelm August Ludwig Maximilian Friedrich; 25 April 1806 – 18 October 1884), was ruling duke of the Duchy of Brunswick from 1830 until his death. William was the second son of Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and after the death of his father in 1815, was under the guardianship of his paternal great-granduncle King George IV of the United Kingdom. He became a Prussian major in 1823. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William, Duke of Brunswick has received more than 108,032 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 19 in 2019). William, Duke of Brunswick is the 563rd most popular nobleman (down from 441st in 2019), the 2,221st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,844th in 2019) and the 101st most popular German Nobleman.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, William, Duke of Brunswick ranks 563 out of 1,415. Before him are Otto I, Duke of Merania, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy, Rorik of Dorestad, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne. After him are Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg, Emma of France, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Peter, Constable of Portugal, and Louis I, Count of Nevers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, William, Duke of Brunswick ranks 24. Before him are Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Duchenne de Boulogne, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Antoine Wiertz, and John A. Roebling. After him are Karl Friedrich Mohr, Juliette Drouet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lionel Kieseritzky, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, and Giacomo Antonelli. Among people deceased in 1884, William, Duke of Brunswick ranks 26. Before him are Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Paul Abadie, Hermann Schlegel, Eduard Rüppell, Cetshwayo kaMpande, and George Bentham. After him are Eduard Totleben, Leopold Fitzinger, Juan Bautista Alberdi, François Mignet, Ludwig Richter, and Pavlo Chubynsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William, Duke of Brunswick ranks 2,221 out of 7,253. Before him are Jérôme Boateng (1988), Sigmund Rascher (1909), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813). After him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), and Willi Münzenberg (1889).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, William, Duke of Brunswick ranks 101. Before him are Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden (1824), Princess Antonia of Luxembourg (1899), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), and Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1284). After him are Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia (1103), Princess Marie Amelie of Baden (1817), Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1620), and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779).

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