Friedrich Wilhelm II. von Preußen (1744-1797)
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- Name (English)
- Friedrich Wilhelm II. von Preußen
- Short name
- Frederick William II of Prussia
- Year of birth
- 1744
- Year of death
- 1797
- Short Description
- "Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was in personal union the Prince-elector of Brandenburg and (via the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel. Pleasure-loving and indolent, he is seen as the antithesis to his predecessor, Frederick the Great. (Frederick II). Under his reign, Prussia was weakened internally and externally, and he failed to deal adequately with the challenges to the existing order posed by the French Revolution. His religious policies were directed against the Enlightenment and aimed at restoring a traditional Protestantism. However, he was a patron of the arts and responsible for the construction of some notable buildings, among them the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin." - (en.wikipedia.org 15.02.2022)
- Entity Encoding
- pik
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Brief von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing an Gleim, 12.5.1757
Lessing spricht Gleim...
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Gruppenporträt Friedrich II. Friedrich Wilhelm (II.) und Prinz Heinrich von Preußen
Der alternde König ist...
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Porträt Friedrich Wilhelm (II.) Kronprinz von Preußen
Bei dem kleinen Brustbild im...
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Friedrich II. und seine Brüder
1712-1786; 1740...
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Image: Gleimhaus Halberstadt - CC BY-NC-SA
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