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Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

1785 - 1831

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Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold; Danish: Frederik Vilhelm Paul Leopold; 4 January 1785 – 17 February 1831) was a German-Danish prince and officer who was the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck from 1816 to 1825, and the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg from 1825 to 1831. Friedrich Wilhelm is the progenitor of the House of Glücksburg. Friedrich Wilhelm was the only son of Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and Countess Friederike of Schlieben, and was a member of the ducal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, a junior male branch of the House of Oldenburg. From 1804, he lived in his family's original home in Denmark-Norway, where he made a career as an officer of the Danish army during the Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is the 1,560th most popular politician (up from 6,340th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Poland (up from 361st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Politician.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is most famous for being the father of Queen Victoria.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ranks 1,560 out of 19,576. Before him are Bessus, Manuel Azaña, Emomali Rahmon, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Akbar II, and Servilia. After him are Stephen III of Moldavia, Arnold Rüütel, Do-Aklin, Tiberius II Constantine, Abijah of Judah, and Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ranks 4. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, and Jacob Grimm. After him are Thomas De Quincey, Alessandro Manzoni, Karl Drais, Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1831, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ranks 7. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Carl von Clausewitz, James Monroe, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Sophie Germain, and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte. After him are Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Emilia Plater, Achim von Arnim, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Charles Felix of Sardinia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ranks 81 out of 1,694. Before him are Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), and Konrad Emil Bloch (1912). After him are Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Horst Köhler (1943), Jan Matejko (1838), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), and Johannes Hevelius (1611).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ranks 17. Before him are Sigismund I the Old (1467), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), and Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046). After him are Horst Köhler (1943), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), and Egon Krenz (1937).

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