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William II, Elector of Hesse

1777 - 1847

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William II (German: Wilhelm II; 28 July 1777 – 20 November 1847) was the penultimate Elector of Hesse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William II, Elector of Hesse has received more than 143,259 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William II, Elector of Hesse is the 7,890th most popular politician (down from 7,348th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,115th in 2019) and the 665th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 7,890 out of 15,577Before him are Marie-Claire Alain, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Vyacheslav Kebich, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Werner Lorenz, and Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal. After him are Artabanus II of Parthia, Yoshida Shōin, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Ferdinand Kettler, Ayub Khan, and Alghu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 22Before him are Adélaïde d'Orléans, Bernard Courtois, Filippo Taglioni, Guillaume Dupuytren, Louis Poinsot, and Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov. After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Christian Daniel Rauch, William Brown, Heinrich Marx, and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom. Among people deceased in 1847, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 16Before him are Jules de Polignac, Adélaïde d'Orléans, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Maria Schicklgruber, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, and Alexandre Brongniart. After him are Charles Hatchett, Thiệu Trị, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Alexandre Deschapelles, Ioannis Kolettis, and Karl Friedrich Burdach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 2,224 out of 6,142Before him are Tielman Susato (1500), Ludwig Uhland (1787), August Kopff (1882), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Walter Sickert (1860), and Erich Mühsam (1878). After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), Heinrich Ehrler (1917), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Edmund Heines (1897), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), and Wolfgang Reitherman (1909).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, William II, Elector of Hesse ranks 665Before him are Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Sibylle of Cleves (1512), Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), August Hermann Francke (1663), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), and Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439). After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Edmund Heines (1897), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), and Heinz Hoffmann (1910).