Frederick William IV of Prussia

King of Prussia (1795–1861)

  • Fame57.7
  • Momentum0.3
  • Wikipedia33K
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Lived 1795–1861, aged 66
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  • Wikipedia
    60 languages
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  • Era
    1795–1861
    Aged 66
  • Awards
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    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

The Prussian king who believed God put him on the throne, rejected an imperial crown from a revolutionary parliament, and crushed the 1848 uprisings — then spent his final years silenced by strokes.

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Frederick William IV became King of Prussia on 7 June 1840, a deeply religious man convinced he ruled by divine right who feared revolutions and dreamed of a Christian estate-based state rather than constitutional monarchy. He started moderately — easing censorship, freeing political prisoners — but when the German revolutions of 1848–1849 forced him to bend, he dissolved the Prussian National Assembly in December 1848 for proposing too radical a constitution, imposed his own version with a strong monarch, and sent Prussian troops to crush revolutionary forces across the German Confederation.…

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