biography
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Frederick William IV
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| lived:
| (1795–1861)
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| biography:
| King of Prussia, born in Cölln, NE Germany. He succeeded his father, Frederick William III, in 1840, and began his reign by granting minor reforms and promising radical changes, but always evaded the fulfilment of these pledges. He survived the revolution of 1848, and refused the imperial crown offered him by the Liberal Frankfurt Diet in 1849. In 1857, after suffering a stroke, he resigned the administration to his brother, who from 1858 acted as regent till his accession, as William I, on Frederick William's death. |
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