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John of Saxony
John of Saxony was king of Saxony from 1854 to 1873. A scholar as well as a monarch, he translated Dante's Divine Comedy into German under the pen name Philalethes. He sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, after which Saxony had to join the Prussian-led North German Confederation and, in 1871, the German Empire.
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