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Frederick William IV, German Friedrich Wilhelm, (born Oct. 15, 1795, Cölln, near Berlin, Prussia—died Jan. 2, 1861, Potsdam), King of Prussia (1840–61). The son of Frederick William III, he was a disciple of the German Romantic movement and an artistic dilettante, but his conservative policies helped spark the Revolutions of 1848, in ...

Frederick William IV (1795-1861) was king of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. Perhaps the most intelligent and artistically talented Prussian monarch, he proved to be an erratic and unreliable leader during the German Revolution of 1848. On Oct. 15, 1795, Frederick William IV was born in Berlin, the oldest son of Frederick William III.

Frederick William IV King of Prussia Reign 4 June 1840 – 2 January 1861 Predecessor Frederick William III Successor William I Born 15 October 1795 Berlin, Prussia Died 2 January 1861 (age 65) Potsdam Burial Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin Spouse Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria House House of Hohenzollern Father Frederick William III Mother

Frederick William IV of Prussia replaced his liberal ministers with a conservative government which adjourned the Constituent Assembly. 28 March 1849 The Frankfurt Assembly elected Prussia's King Frederick William IV as Emperor of Germany. 3 April 1849

Frederick William IV was the king of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. He is remembered for implementing conservative policies that eventually sparked the revolution that occurred in 1848. Also known as the ‘romanticist on the throne’, he gained a reputation for the many buildings which he built in Potsdam and Berlin, and for completing the ...

King Frederick William IV of Prussia unilaterally imposed a monarchist constitution to undercut the democratic forces. This constitution took effect on December 5, 1848. On December 5, 1848, the revolutionary Assembly was dissolved and replaced with the bicameral legislature allowed under the monarchist Constitution.

Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1795-1861; ruled 1840-1861). Most German historians of the nineteen th and early twentieth century negatively characterized Frederick William IV as gifted but mercurial and contradictory, an artist and aesthete rather than a hard-headed politician, a "Romantic on the throne" who was out of step with his ...