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Also Known As Ernst August
Born November 20, 1629 • Germany
Died January 23, 1698 (aged 68) • Germany
House / Dynasty House of Hanover
Notable Family Members spouse Sophia • son George I
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Rudolf von Bennigsen
German politician
Ernest Augustus
Ernest Augustus
king of Hanover
Ernest Augustus
pretender to Hanoverian throne
George V
king of Hanover
George III
George III
king of Great Britain
George IV
George IV
king of United Kingdom
William IV, detail from a painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William IV
king of Great Britain
Agostino Steffani
Italian composer
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]

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