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William I, Elector of Hesse

1743 - 1821

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William I, Elector of Hesse (German: Wilhelm I., Kurfürst von Hessen; 3 June 1743 – 27 February 1821) was the eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of George II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William I, Elector of Hesse has received more than 235,275 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William I, Elector of Hesse is the 4,927th most popular politician (down from 4,592nd in 2019), the 1,367th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,302nd in 2019) and the 410th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 4,927 out of 15,577Before him are Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Pedro Sánchez, Amyntas II of Macedon, Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Stepan Shaumian, and Gojong of Goryeo. After him are Rusa I, Leonardo Loredan, Guillaume de Beaujeu, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Al-Rashid of Morocco, and Leonnatus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 16Before him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, and René Just Haüy. After him are Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, and Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano. Among people deceased in 1821, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 8Before him are John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, and Franz Karl Achard. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Gregory V of Constantinople, Tudor Vladimirescu, Jean Rapp, Juan O'Donojú, and Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 1,367 out of 6,142Before him are Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Melitta Bentz (1873), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823). After him are Friedrich Hund (1896), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), and Max Schreck (1879).

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