X-Nico

unusual facts about Prussian King



Danzig Research Society

In 1840 Alexander von Humboldt accompanied Prussian King Frederick William IV on the way to Königsberg, and Humboldt received an honorary membership in the Society.


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Boguszyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Friedrichswartha was founded in 1777, after the conquest of the County of Kladsko by the Prussian king Frederick the Great in the course of the First Silesian War 1740–42.

Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

The project of a public collection of old European masters had been initiated by the archaeologist Aloys Hirt (1759-1837) already in 1797 and had gained support from the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Slezské Rudoltice

The chateau was visited by famous French philosopher Voltaire, the Prussian king Frederick II and the Austrian emperor Joseph II.

Uničov

After the Seven Years' War, Emperor Joseph II met here with the Prussian king Frederick the Great in 1770, a rapprochement of the former enemies that would lead to the First Partition of Poland two years later.

Żmigród

In 1813, in the baroque palace of the House of Hatzfeld, there was a meeting of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III of the Russian Tsar Alexander I, in which a protocol trachenberski (Żmigrodzki), whose goal was the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.