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Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

1740 - 1817

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Leopold III Frederick Franz, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (10 August 1740 – 9 August 1817), known as "Prince Franz" or "Father Franz", was a German prince of the House of Ascania. From 1751 until 1807 he was reigning prince of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau and from 1807 the first Duke of the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau. A strong supporter of the Enlightenment, Leopold undertook numerous reforms in his principality and made Anhalt-Dessau one of the most modern and prosperous of the small German states. An Anglophile, Leopold also extended and altered the old gardens of Oranienbaum that were laid out in Dutch style to create the first and largest of the English parks of his time, renamed the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau is the 9,642nd most popular politician (up from 9,952nd in 2019), the 2,706th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,890th in 2019) and the 813th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 9,642 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Foday Sankoh, Prince Munetaka, Mohammad Beheshti, Mangas Coloradas, and Tevfik Esenç. After him are Marián Čalfa, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Edmund the Martyr, Yunus Pasha, and Boniface II, Marquis of Montferrat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 21. Before him are John Latham, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Anders Johan Lexell, James Boswell, and Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine. After him are Matthias Claudius, Juan Ignacio Molina, Johan Tobias Sergel, Johan Andreas Murray, J. F. Oberlin, and Ivan Lepyokhin. Among people deceased in 1817, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 26. Before him are Ibrahim Bey, Usman dan Fodio, Étienne Méhul, Andrea Appiani, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, and Giacomo Quarenghi. After him are Policarpa Salavarrieta, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Joseph von Sonnenfels, and Jean-Sifrein Maury.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 2,707 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp (1569), Claude Dornier (1884), Herman I of Baden (1040), Master Francke (1380), and Margarete Steiff (1847). After him are Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770), Alfred Meyer (1891), Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1676), Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773), and William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1662).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ranks 813. Before him are Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401), Marie Eleonore of Cleves (1550), Konrad Peutinger (1465), Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890), and Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp (1569). After him are Alfred Meyer (1891), Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1676), Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773), Christine of Hesse (1543), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751), and Georg Hilmar (1876).

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