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| | FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM II. OF PRUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | (1744-1797), king of Prussia, son of Augustus William, second son of King Frederick William I. and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick, sister of the wife of Frederick the Great, was born at Berlin on the 2 5th of September 1744, and became heir to the throne on his fathers death in 1757. |
 | | In 1781 Frederick William, then prince of Prussia, inclined, like many sensual natures, to mysticism, had joined the Rosicrucians, and had fallen under the influence of Johann Christof Wollner (1732-1800), and by him the royal policy was inspired. |
 | | Prussia had paid a heavy price for the territories acquired at the expense of Poland in 1793 and i~g5, and when, on the 16th of November 1797, Frederick William died, he left the state in bankruptcy and confusion, the army decayed and the monarchy discredited. |
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