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William, Duke of Nassau

1792 - 1839

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Wilhelm (Given names: Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau, along with his father's cousin Frederick Augustus, reigning from 1816 until 1839. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William, Duke of Nassau has received more than 212,681 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William, Duke of Nassau is the 4,063rd most popular politician (up from 4,138th in 2019), the 1,090th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,143rd in 2019) and the 317th most popular German Politician.

William, Duke of Nassau is most famous for being the founder of the Dutch royal family. He was the son of Philip, Count of Nassau, and Juliana of Stolberg.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William, Duke of Nassau ranks 4,063 out of 19,576Before him are Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, Heraclius II of Georgia, Rose Francine Rogombé, Archelaus I of Macedon, Bleda, and Norodom of Cambodia. After him are Murad Bey, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Guy, Count of Flanders, Moša Pijade, and Fouad Siniora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, William, Duke of Nassau ranks 12Before him are Nikolai Lobachevsky, John Herschel, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, James Mayer de Rothschild, Victor Cousin, Johann Peter Eckermann, Johan August Arfwedson, and Maria Beatrice of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1839, William, Duke of Nassau ranks 7Before him are Mahmud II, Frederick VI of Denmark, Caroline Bonaparte, Fernando Sor, Friedrich Mohs, and Ranjit Singh. After him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, William Smith, Joseph Fesch, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Charlotte Bonaparte.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William, Duke of Nassau ranks 1,090 out of 7,253Before him are Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Albert Speer (1934), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Carl Reinecke (1824), and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698). After him are Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934), Carl Stamitz (1745), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), and Max Klinger (1857).

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