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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
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Anton Fugger
German merchant
August Boeckh
German scholar
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Robert Wiene
German film director