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William I of Württemberg

1781 - 1864

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William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 27 September 1781 – 25 June 1864) was King of Württemberg from 30 October 1816 until his death. Upon William's accession, Württemberg was suffering crop failures and famine in the "Year Without a Summer", in 1816. After taking office, he initiated sweeping reforms, resulting in the approval of the Estates of Württemberg to a constitution on 25 September 1819. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William I of Württemberg has received more than 386,151 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). William I of Württemberg is the 2,744th most popular politician (up from 3,315th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Poland (up from 189th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Polish Politician.

William I of Württemberg is most famous for being the first king of the Kingdom of Württemberg, which was a German state in the 19th century.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William I of Württemberg ranks 2,744 out of 19,576. Before him are Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, Abu'l-Fida, Catherine of Braganza, Clovis IV, Emperor Yingzong of Song, and Huneric. After him are Quirinius, Sandro Pertini, Empress Xiaoyichun, Milan Nedić, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and Yevgeny Primakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, William I of Württemberg ranks 10. Before him are Bernard Bolzano, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Siméon Denis Poisson, Stamford Raffles, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are Anton Diabelli, Achim von Arnim, Frederica of Baden, David Brewster, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Among people deceased in 1864, William I of Württemberg ranks 10. Before him are Cheoljong of Joseon, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vuk Karadžić, Hong Xiuquan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. After him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Leo von Klenze, Konstanty Kalinowski, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, and John Hanning Speke.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, William I of Württemberg ranks 160 out of 1,694. Before him are Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Rochus Misch (1917), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Maxim Litvinov (1876), and Christa Wolf (1929). After him are Hermann Balck (1893), Georg Michaelis (1857), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Bolesław Bierut (1892), and Daniel Libeskind (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, William I of Württemberg ranks 41. Before him are Zvi Zamir (1925), Albrecht von Roon (1803), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), and Maxim Litvinov (1876). After him are Georg Michaelis (1857), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Władysław Anders (1892), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Andrzej Duda (1972), and Isabella Jagiellon (1519).

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