# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-of-battenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:51:34.883Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-of-battenberg"
name: "Alexander of Battenberg"
slug: "alexander-of-battenberg"
description: "A German prince who ruled Bulgaria for seven years, dissolved its parliament, suspended and then restored its constitution, unified two territories, and was finally ousted by his own army officers in a pro-Russian coup."
tagline: "Bulgarian ruler (1857–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_I_of_Bulgaria_by_Dimitar_Karastoyanov.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1857-04-05"
deathDate: "1893-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.98
  momentum:             1.3037109375
  historical:           22.148192
  currentAttention:     7.242838541666666
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Other"
    slug: "other"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexandr I. Bulharský"
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    title: "Αλέξανδρος του Μπάττενμπεργκ"
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    title: "Alexandre I de Bulgaria"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandar I., bugarski knez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ალექსანდრ ბატენბერგი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "알렉산더르 1세"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The Bulgarian Grand National Assembly elected Alexander of Battenberg as Prince of autonomous Bulgaria in 1879. He dissolved the assembly the following year and suspended the Constitution in 1881, deeming it too liberal. When he restored the Constitution in 1883, it triggered open conflict with Russia — a stance that made him popular domestically. Unification with Eastern Rumelia came in 1885 and won recognition from the great powers. In September 1886, pro-Russian officers in the Bulgarian Army staged a coup and forced his abdication. He left the Balkans and became a general in the Austrian army, dying in 1893 at thirty-six.