Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1748

Place of Birth: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1820

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Frederick V Louis William Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (30 January 1748, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe – 20 January 1820, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) was from 1751 to his death landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. He was born under Europe's Ancien Regime but lived to see the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the rise and fall of Napoleon I, the Congress of Vienna and its establishment of a new geopolitical order in Europe and Germany.
Unlike his predecessors and successors, he was not keen on war and instead became one of the patrons of German Geistesgeschichte, corresponding with Lavater and Klopstock and visiting Voltaire, D’Alembert and Albrecht von Haller.
He was caustic, conservative but popular with his people.