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Prince Frederick of the Netherlands

1797 - 1881

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Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (full names: Willem Frederik Karel; 28 February 1797, in Berlin – 8 September 1881, in Wassenaar), was the second son of William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of Prussia. Frederick was active in the military and political life of the Netherlands. He served as Commissary-general of the Department of War and as Chief Director of War and Navy, where he modernized the army according to the Prussian model. Frederick also led the Dutch troops during the Belgian Revolution in 1830. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands is the 6,302nd most popular politician (down from 5,949th in 2019), the 1,681st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,640th in 2019) and the 494th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands ranks 6,302 out of 19,576. Before him are Anytus, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, and Leonardo Sciascia. After him are Alexander I of Scotland, Franz Xaver Schwarz, Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Zhang Xianzhong, and François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands ranks 31. Before him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Manuela Sáenz, James Ferguson, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman. After him are Sojourner Truth, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Giuditta Pasta, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Among people deceased in 1881, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands ranks 25. Before him are Theobald Boehm, Hermann Lotze, George W. De Long, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Eduard Heine, and Maria Domenica Mazzarello. After him are Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, John Gould, William Burges, Ludwig von Benedek, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Sophia Perovskaya.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands ranks 1,681 out of 7,253. Before him are Gondioc (450), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Franz Danzi (1763), Lina Heydrich (1911), and Saint Afra (300). After him are John Heartfield (1891), Oliver Bierhoff (1968), Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), Wolfram Sievers (1905), Christian Schmidt (1957), and Ferdinand Hiller (1811).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands ranks 494. Before him are Gottfried Silbermann (1683), Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (1319), Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728), Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1880), John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455), and Gondioc (450). After him are Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), Wolfram Sievers (1905), Christian Schmidt (1957), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), and Günther Quandt (1881).

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