Friedrich Wilhelm
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The German name Friedrich Wilhelm usually refers to several monarchs of the Hohenzollern dynasty:
Other people with the name Friedrich Wilhelm include:
Other uses:
- Frederick William, Elector of BrandenburgFrederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|align=right|Frederick William was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia – and thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia – from 1640 until his death. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as the "Great Elector" because of his military and political prowess...
(1620-1688) - Frederick William IFrederick William I of PrussiaFrederick William I of the House of Hohenzollern, was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death...
(1688-1740), King in Prussia - Frederick William IIFrederick William II of PrussiaFrederick William II was the King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. He was in personal union the Prince-Elector of Brandenburg and the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel.-Early life:...
(1744-1797), King of Prussia - Frederick William IIIFrederick William III of PrussiaFrederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...
(1770-1840), King of Prussia - Frederick William IVFrederick William IV of Prussia|align=right|Upon his accession, he toned down the reactionary policies enacted by his father, easing press censorship and promising to enact a constitution at some point, but he refused to enact a popular legislative assembly, preferring to work with the aristocracy through "united committees" of...
(1795-1861), King of Prussia
Other people with the name Friedrich Wilhelm include:
- Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1771-1815)
- Friedrich Wilhelm ArgelanderFriedrich Wilhelm ArgelanderFriedrich Wilhelm August Argelander was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances.- Life and work :...
(1799-1875), Prussian astronomer - Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu BaringdorfFriedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu BaringdorfFriedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.-References:...
(born 1942), politician - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846), mathematician and astronomer
- Friedrich Wilhelm, Count BrandenburgFriedrich Wilhelm, Count BrandenburgFriedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg was a German soldier and politician. He was the son of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Countess Sophie von Dönhoff. He and his sister were made count and countess in 1794, and he was raised with the sons of Field Marshal von Massow. In 1807, he...
(1792-1850), Prussian general and politician - Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von BülowFriedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von BülowFriedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Graf von Dennewitz was a Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life:...
(1755-1816), Prussian general - Friedrich Wilhelm Buxhoeveden (1759-1811), Russian general
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (Friedrich Fröbel)(1782 – 1852), educationist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard GerhardFriedrich Wilhelm Eduard GerhardFriedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard was a German archaeologist. He was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society.-Biography:Gerhard was born at Posen, and was educated at Breslau and Berlin...
(1795-1867), archaeologist - Friedrich Wilhelm GotterFriedrich Wilhelm GotterFriedrich Wilhelm Gotter was a German poet and dramatist.He was born at Gotha. After the completion of his university course at Göttingen, he was appointed second director of the Gotha Archive. He subsequently went to Wetzlar, the seat of the imperial law courts, as secretary to the...
(1746-1797), poet - Friedrich Wilhelm HackländerFriedrich Wilhelm HackländerFriedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer , was a successful German author.-Life:...
(1816-1877), writer - Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (1796-1825), naturalist and explorer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (1784-1849), pianist and composer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kasiski (1805-1881), officer, cryptologist, and archaeologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (1840-1910), physicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm KritzingerFriedrich Wilhelm KritzingerDr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was a German official and state secretary in the Reich Chancellery during the period of National Socialism...
(1890-1947), Nazi politician - Friedrich Wilhelm KrügerFriedrich Wilhelm KrügerFriedrich-Wilhelm Krüger was a Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was SS and Police Leader in the General Government in German-occupied Poland and in that capacity he organized and supervised numerous acts of war crimes.- Early life :Krüger was born...
(1894-1945), Nazi officer - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?), explorer
- Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauFriedrich Wilhelm MurnauFriedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s...
(1888-1931), silent film director - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), philologist and philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm RaiffeisenFriedrich Wilhelm RaiffeisenFriedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks have been named after Raiffeisen, who pioneered rural credit unions.- Life :...
(1818-1888), cooperative leader - Friedrich Wilhelm RitschlFriedrich Wilhelm RitschlFriedrich Wilhelm Ritschl was a German scholar best known as a student of Plautus.-Biography:He was born in Großvargula, Thuringia. His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditary, were Protestants who had migrated several generations earlier from Bohemia...
(1806-1876), scholar - Friedrich Wilhelm RüstowFriedrich Wilhelm RüstowFriedrich Wilhelm Rüstow was a Prussian-born Swiss soldier and military writer.Rüstow was born in Brandenburg an der Havel in the Province of Brandenburg. He entered the Prussian Army and served for some years, until the publication of Der deutsche Militärstaat vor und während der Revolution...
(1821-1878), Swiss soldier - Friedrich Wilhelm SchadowFriedrich Wilhelm SchadowFriedrich Wilhelm Schadow was a German Romantic painter.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and was the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow....
(1789-1862), painter - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), philosopher
- Friedrich Wilhelm SchirmerFriedrich Wilhelm SchirmerAugust Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer was a German landscape artist.-Biography:Schirmer was born in Berlin. As a youth Schirmer painted flowers in the royal porcelain factory; afterwards he became a pupil of Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow in the Berlin Academy, but his art owed most to Italy...
(1802-1866), artist - Friedrich Wilhelm SchneidewinFriedrich Wilhelm SchneidewinFriedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin , was a German classical scholar.-Biography:He was born at Helmstedt. In 1833 he became a teacher at the Brunswick gymnasium...
(1810-1856), classicist - Friedrich Wilhelm von SeydlitzFriedrich Wilhelm von SeydlitzFriedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was a Prussian soldier and one of the greatest German cavalry generals.-Early life:...
(1721-1773), Prussian cavalry general - Friedrich Wilhelm von SteubenFriedrich Wilhelm von SteubenFriedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben , also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War...
(1730-1794), Prussian officer - Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (1784-1860), educationist
- Friedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer.-Life:Zachow probably received his training from his father, the violinist Heinrich Zachow, one of Leipzig's town musicians. as organist of Halle's Church of Our Lady in 1684, succeeding Samuel Ebart...
(1663-1712), composer - Crown Prince Wilhelm of GermanyCrown Prince Wilhelm of GermanyFrederick William Victor Augustus Ernest of the House of Hohenzollern was the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire. He was colloquially known as William or Wilhelm throughout Europe....
(1882-1951) - Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFriedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFrederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, KG was a German sovereign who ruled over the state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1860 until his death.-Biography:...
(1819-1904) - Wilhelm Friedrich (Brandenburg-Ansbach), brother of Caroline of AnsbachCaroline of AnsbachCaroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was the queen consort of King George II of Great Britain.Her father, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the ruler of a small German state...
Other uses:
- SMS Kurfürst Friedrich WilhelmSMS Kurfürst Friedrich WilhelmSMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm"SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. was one of the first ocean-going battleshipsAt the time she was laid down, the German navy referred to the ship as an "armored ship" , instead of "battleship" , see Gröner, p13. of the German...
, Imperial German ship - Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, an older name of the Humboldt University of BerlinHumboldt University of BerlinThe Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn am Rhein, the German name of the University of BonnUniversity of BonnThe University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...
See also
- Frederick William (disambiguation)