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Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia

1828 - 1885

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Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia (20 March 1828 – 15 June 1885) was the son of Prince Charles of Prussia (1801–1883) and his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877). Prince Friedrich Karl was a grandson of King Frederick William III of Prussia and a nephew of Frederick William IV and William I. As a military commander, the Prince had a major influence on the Royal Prussian Army's advances in training and tactics in the 1850s and 1860s. He commanded one of the armies which defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866 and the French Army of the Rhine at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour, overseeing the defeat of the Army of the Rhine at the Siege of Metz in 1870. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia is the 3,090th most popular politician (up from 5,639th in 2019), the 796th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,549th in 2019) and the 224th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia ranks 3,090 out of 19,576. Before him are Vonones I, John I of Aragon, Dasharatha Maurya, Hayk, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Choe Ryong-hae. After him are Artavasdes II of Armenia, Naram-Sin of Akkad, Sinatruces of Parthia, Georg Michaelis, Wang Zhaojun, and Safi of Persia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia ranks 14. Before him are Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Albert Marth, and Ferdinand Cohn. After him are Albert of Saxony, Louise of the Netherlands, John Langdon Down, Joseph Swan, Paul Gachet, and Edmond François Valentin About. Among people deceased in 1885, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia ranks 9. Before him are Alfonso XII of Spain, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. After him are Carl Spitzweg, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Rosalía de Castro, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Charles George Gordon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia ranks 796 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Albert Speer (1934), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Otto Ohlendorf (1907). After him are Peter Parler (1330), Albert Göring (1895), Andreas Baader (1943), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), and Georg Ernst Stahl (1659).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia ranks 224. Before him are Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Artur Axmann (1913), and Anthony of Saxony (1755). After him are Wilhelm Cuno (1876), Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722), Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), and Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865).

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