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Born May 27, 1819 • Berlin • Germany • (Birthday in 5 days)
Died June 12, 1878 (aged 59) • Paris • France
Title / Office king (1851-1866), Hanover
Notable Family Members father Ernest Augustus
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Rudolf von Bennigsen
German politician
Ernest Augustus
Ernest Augustus
king of Hanover
Ernest Augustus
pretender to Hanoverian throne
Ernest Augustus
elector 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
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
August Boeckh
German scholar

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