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Born January 2, 1784 • Coburg • Germany
Died January 29, 1844 (aged 60) • Gotha • Germany
Ernest II, detail from a lithograph by C. Baugniet after a portrait by H. Thorburn, 1844
Ernest II
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Bernard II
German duke
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
August Boeckh
German scholar
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Robert Wiene
German film director