Emperor Rudolf II
1552–1612
Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)
monarch · politician · art collector
Born in Vienna
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Emperor Rudolf II:
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- René Descartes (1596–1650)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
- Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
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