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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
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Bernard II
German duke
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Robert Wiene
German film director