Friedrich Wilhelm

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The German name Friedrich Wilhelm usually refers to several monarchs of the Hohenzollern dynasty:

• Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620-1688)
• Frederick William I (1688-1740), King in Prussia
• Frederick William II {1744-1797), King of Prussia
• Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia
• Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia

Other people with the name Friedrich Wilhelm include:

• Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1771-1815)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799-1875), Prussian astronomer
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846), mathematician and astronomer
• Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755-1816), Prussian general
• Friedrich Wilhelm Buxhoeveden (1759-1811), Russian general
• Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782 – 1852), educationist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (1795-1867), archaeologist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746-1797), poet
• Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (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 Kritzinger (1890-1947), Nazi politician
• Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger (1894-1945), Nazi officer
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848?), explorer
• Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931), silent film director
• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1944-1900), philologist and philosopher
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888), cooperative leader
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-1876), scholar
• Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow (1821-1878), Swiss soldier
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789-1862), painter
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), philosopher
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer (1802-1866), artist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1810-1856), classicist
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721-1773), Prussian cavalry general
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794), Prussian officer
• Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (1784-1860), educationist
• Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663-1712), composer
• Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (1882-1951)
• Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819-1904)

Other uses:

• SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, Imperial German ship
• Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, an older name of the Humboldt University of Berlin
• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn am Rhein, the German name of the University of Bonn

See also: Frederick William