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Frederick William IV (reigned 1840–61), a romantic, aspired to revive in Prussia his imaginary conception of the Middle Ages.He ended the conflict with the Roman Catholic church, and in 1844 he actually attended the celebrations that marked the completion, after many centuries, of the Cologne Cathedral—the first king of Prussia to enter a Roman Catholic building.
May 27, 2024 · Frederick William I (born August 14, 1688, Berlin—died May 31, 1740, Potsdam, Prussia) was the second Prussian king, who transformed his country from a second-rate power into the efficient and prosperous state that his son and successor, Frederick II the Great, made a major military power on the Continent.
Frederick William IV committed himself to German nationalism and unification, promising to summon a Constituent Assembly to create a united Prussia n Diet, which in turn would consider establishing a national German parliament.
Frederick William succeeded his father, Frederick William III, in 1840. Queen Victoria found him kind, good and clever on his visit to England in 1842. In 1857 he suffered from a series of strokes and his brother William became Regent. Here the King is dressed in the uniform of a General Officer of Cavalry in the Prussian army, wearing the collar (and possibly the star) of the Order of the ...
Frederick William IV, King of Prussia. Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1795-1861; ruled 1840-1861). Most German historians of the nineteen th and early twentieth century negatively characterized Frederick William IV as gifted but mercurial and contradictory, an artist and aesthete rather than a hard-headed politician, a "Romantic on the throne" who was out of step with his times.
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Frederick William IV King of Prussia | Museum number 1872,1012.361 | Producer name BIOG64572 ...
