Theodore I | |
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King of Corsica | |
Reign | March 1736 – November 1736 |
Successor | Colonel Frederick (titular) |
Born | 25 August 1694 Köln, Holy Roman Empire |
Died | 11 December 1756 (aged 62) London, Kingdom of Great Britain |
Burial | |
Spouse | Catalina Sarsfield |
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Theodore I of Corsica (25 August 1694 – 11 December 1756), born Freiherr Theodor Stephan von Neuhoff,[a] was a German adventurer who was briefly King of Corsica. Theodore is the subject of an opera by Giovanni Paisiello, Il re Teodoro in Venezia (1784, Vienna), and one of the six kings in Venice in Voltaire's Candide.
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