Frederick the Great Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Frederick the Great? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Frederick the Great from Historical Figures 1700s and what is the personality traits.
ENFP (8w7)
Frederick the Great personality type is ENFP, the Idealist.
As a rule, Frederick is a very sharp, incisive, and imaginative man, a leader of men. He has a rare gift for seeing the big picture, the picture that is bigger than any one individual or event could ever be. This vision is the reason he led the Prussian army to such great victories over the invading French. However, Frederick can become a tyrant. In fact, he was a tyrant because he could not tolerate the idea of any power being stronger than his own.
In his youth, Frederick had been influenced by his teacher, Baron von Stein, and by James I’s son, later James II of England, and wanted to be the greatest military and political leader in Europe. It was because he wanted to be the greatest that he could not tolerate anyone being stronger than he was.
Frederick was an introvert and an extrovert as a child. He always enjoyed being alone and was committed to solitude as an adult. He never married but spent several years as the king of France as monarch of Prussia. He remained a bachelor until his mid-forties.
Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king, at 46 years. His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories, his reorganization of Prussian armies, his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War. Frederick was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia and declared himself King of Prussia after achieving sovereignty over most historically Prussian lands in 1772. Prussia had greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed Der Alte Fritz ("The Old Fritz") by the Prussian people and eventually the rest of Germany.
