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Louis II


(born Aug. 25, 1845, Nymphenburg Palace, Munich — died June 13, 1886, Starnberger See, Bavaria) King of Bavaria (1864 – 86). The son of Maximilian II of Bavaria, he supported Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War (1870 – 71). He brought his territories into the newly founded German Empire in 1871 but concerned himself only intermittently with affairs of state, preferring a life of increasingly morbid seclusion. A lifelong patron of the composer Richard Wagner, he developed a mania for extravagant building projects; the most fantastic, Neuschwanstein, was a fairy-tale castle decorated with scenes from Wagner's operas. He drowned himself three days after he was formally declared insane.

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