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Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

1709 - 1729

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Ernst Ludwig II (Coburg, 8 August 1709 – Meiningen, 24 February 1729), was a duke of Saxe-Meiningen. He was the third but second surviving son of Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha. The death of his older brother Josef Bernhard (22 March 1724) made him the heir to the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. When his father died seven months later (24 November 1724), Ernst Ludwig - fifteen years old- inherited the duchy along with his younger brother Karl Frederick. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen is the 10,371st most popular politician (up from 13,460th in 2019), the 2,970th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,214th in 2019) and the 878th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ranks 10,371 out of 19,576. Before him are Constantine III of Scotland, Mario Scelba, Liu Cong, Máté Zalka, Sophie of Brandenburg, and Yevgenia Bosch. After him are Léon Delacroix, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Henriette d'Angeville, Jesús Gil, and Antonio Maura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ranks 18. Before him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Franz Xaver Richter, Charles de Brosses, Étienne de Silhouette, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. After him are Alexei Razumovsky, John Cleland, Antonio Rinaldi, Francesco Araja, Molla Vali Vidadi, and Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. Among people deceased in 1729, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ranks 14. Before him are Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Johann David Heinichen, Anthony Collins, and Louis Antoine de Noailles. After him are William Congreve, Torii Kiyonobu I, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Samuel Clarke, Attilio Ariosti, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ranks 2,972 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1794), Sophie of Brandenburg (1568), Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495), Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), and Heinrich Rose (1795). After him are Elga Andersen (1935), Aribert Reimann (1936), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Adam Kraft (1450), and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ranks 878. Before him are Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462), Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1897), Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (1667), Hugo Preuß (1860), Bernhard Kellermann (1879), and Sophie of Brandenburg (1568). After him are Johann Fust (1400), John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1383), Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1498), Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (1610), Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (1447), and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732).

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