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Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

1772 - 1822

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Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (full name: Emil Leopold August) (23 November 1772 — 17 May 1822), was a Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and the author of one of the first modern novels to treat of homoerotic love. He was the maternal grandfather of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg is the 2,915th most popular writer (down from 2,899th in 2019), the 3,081st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,035th in 2019) and the 187th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 2,915 out of 7,302. Before him are Carl Bernstein, Kondraty Ryleyev, Richard Dehmel, Francisco Balagtas, Laurence Oliphant, and Fritz Mauthner. After him are Paula von Preradović, Ales Adamovich, George Mosse, Leah Goldberg, Joan Alcover, and Richard Wright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 30. Before him are Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Mikhail Speransky, Géraud Duroc, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Caesar Augustus Rodney, and Gerhard von Kügelgen. After him are Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Luke Howard, Solomon II of Imereti, Friedrich Gilly, Manuel José Quintana, and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner. Among people deceased in 1822, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 27. Before him are Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Dmitry Levitzky, Sophie de Condorcet, Cheung Po Tsai, Platon Zubov, and Józef Wybicki. After him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Frei Galvão, Uesugi Harunori, and Hồ Xuân Hương.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 3,083 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Adolf Erman (1854), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), and Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588). After him are Helmut Jahn (1940), Klaus Tennstedt (1926), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), Siegfried Bing (1838), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), and John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ranks 187. Before him are Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Stefan Heym (1913), Solomon Perel (1925), and Richard Dehmel (1863). After him are George Mosse (1918), Sebastian Franck (1499), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Günter Eich (1907), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), and Heinrich Vogeler (1872).

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