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Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland

1733 - 1796

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Prince Karl Christian Joseph of Saxony, also anglicized as Charles of Saxony (13 July 1733 – 16 June 1796), was a German prince of the House of Wettin. He was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1758 to 1763. Born in Dresden, he was the fifth son of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Maria Josepha of Austria. He is an ancestor of the Italian House of Savoy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland is the 6,441st most popular politician (up from 6,752nd in 2019), the 1,730th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,841st in 2019) and the 516th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 6,441 out of 19,576. Before him are Joschka Fischer, Levi Lincoln Sr., Stephen Zápolya, Emperor Tsuchimikado, Meir Kahane, and Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry. After him are Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Chen Yun, Leland Stanford, Luís Cabral, Luis Arce, and Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 11. Before him are Johan Zoffany, Carsten Niebuhr, George Read, Hubert Robert, Siraj ud-Daulah, and Jean-Charles de Borda. After him are Daniel Solander, Gottfried van Swieten, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Philip Carteret, Maruyama Ōkyo, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter. Among people deceased in 1796, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 11. Before him are Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Macpherson, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Samuel Huntington, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. After him are Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Johann Daniel Titius, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Shahrokh Shah, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, and François de Charette.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 1,730 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Lortzing (1801), Prince William of Baden (1829), Klaus Fischer (1949), Cerdic of Wessex (467), Gottfried Böhm (1920), and Joschka Fischer (1948). After him are Ottmar Walter (1924), William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487), Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878), Oswald Achenbach (1827), Johann Kirnberger (1721), and Werner Jaeger (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ranks 516. Before him are Georg Ebers (1837), Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), Prince William of Baden (1829), Cerdic of Wessex (467), and Joschka Fischer (1948). After him are Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878), Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (1539), Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), and Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888).

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