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William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

1532 - 1592

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William IV of Hesse-Kassel (24 June 1532 – 25 August 1592), also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel has received more than 109,536 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel is the 7,340th most popular politician (up from 7,877th in 2019), the 2,024th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,225th in 2019) and the 599th most popular German Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 56.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 7,340 out of 19,576. Before her are Jahanara Begum, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, Salitis, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, and Ahmed Zaki Yamani. After her are Abdallah al-Adil, Eberhard of Friuli, Afonso I, Duke of Braganza, Emperor Go-En'yū, Rasoherina, and Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1532, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 7. Before her are Tulsidas, Yermak Timofeyevich, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, and Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony. After her are Luís Fróis, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Maerten de Vos, and Mehmed II Giray. Among people deceased in 1592, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 12. Before her are Jacopo Bassano, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Thomas Cavendish, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. After her are William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michiel Coxie, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Paschal Baylón, and Marc'Antonio Ingegneri.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 2,024 out of 7,253. Before her are Augustin Bea (1881), Karl Frenzel (1911), John Sutter (1803), Eugen Weidmann (1908), Paul Troost (1878), and John III, Duke of Cleves (1490). After her are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), and Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 599. Before her are George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Agnes of Hesse (1527), William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745). After her are Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), and George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547).

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