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Philip William, Elector Palatine

1615 - 1690

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Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine (German: Philipp Wilhelm) (24 November 1615 – 2 September 1690) was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690. He was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Magdalene of Bavaria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip William, Elector Palatine is the 4,473rd most popular politician (down from 3,304th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 892nd in 2019) and the 337th most popular German Politician.

Philip William, Elector Palatine is most famous for being the last elector of the Palatinate branch of the House of Wittelsbach and the first Elector of Bavaria.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Philip William, Elector Palatine ranks 4,473 out of 19,576Before him are Zoe Karbonopsina, Alberic II of Spoleto, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Soghomon Tehlirian, Pausanias of Sparta, and Yves Leterme. After him are Julius Paulus Prudentissimus, As-Salih Ayyub, António, Prior of Crato, Kim Yong-il, Malcolm I of Scotland, and Aristobulus IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1615, Philip William, Elector Palatine ranks 6Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, Pope Innocent XII, Dara Shukoh, Nicolas Fouquet, and Salvator Rosa. After him are Govert Flinck, Marguerite of Lorraine, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Madeleine Béjart, Maria Caterina Farnese, and Heinrich Bach. Among people deceased in 1690, Philip William, Elector Palatine ranks 6Before him are Charles Le Brun, Margaret Mary Alacoque, Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, and David Teniers the Younger. After him are Abraham Brueghel, Giovanni Legrenzi, Michael I Apafi, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Juan de Valdés Leal, and Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philip William, Elector Palatine ranks 1,163 out of 7,253Before him are Michael Ballack (1976), Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), Gottlob Berger (1896), Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), and Christoph Scheiner (1575). After him are Johann Mattheson (1681), Dagmar of Bohemia (1186), Hans Reichenbach (1891), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), and Julius Richard Petri (1852).

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