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Frederick Augustus II of Saxony

1797 - 1854

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Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II.; 18 May 1797 – 9 August 1854) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin. He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony – younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony – by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Augustus II of Saxony is the 2,701st most popular politician (down from 2,464th in 2019), the 715th most popular biography from Germany (down from 659th in 2019) and the 201st most popular German Politician.

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony is most famous for being the last King of Poland.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 2,701 out of 19,576Before him are Ladislaus of Naples, Cleomenes I, Quirinius, Karolos Papoulias, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, and Otto Strasser. After him are Mariano Rajoy, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, John, Prince of Asturias, Barsine, Constantine Laskaris, and Paul Reynaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 15Before him are Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, Charles Lyell, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, and Ferdinand von Wrangel. After him are Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Alfred de Vigny, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Maria Isabel of Braganza, and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg. Among people deceased in 1854, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 4Before him are Georg Ohm, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Abbas I of Egypt. After him are Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Fructuoso Rivera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 715 out of 7,253Before him are Ernst Udet (1896), Julia Drusilla (16), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Frank Farian (1941), Karl Gebhardt (1897), and Otto Strasser (1897). After him are Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Steffi Graf (1969), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Clemens Brentano (1778), Johann Georg Faust (1480), and Nina Hagen (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony ranks 201Before him are Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), Richard Baer (1911), Julia Drusilla (16), and Otto Strasser (1897). After him are Hermann von Salza (1170), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), Erich Koch (1896), Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), Manfred Gerlach (1928), and Jürgen Stroop (1895).