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Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau (27 December 1769 – 27 May 1814), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and heir to the principality (and from 1807 the duchy) of Anhalt-Dessau. He was born in Dessau, the only surviving child of Leopold III, P ...

, issue = Auguste, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt (1 October 1794 – 22 May 1871) was a German prince of the House of Ascania. From 1817 until 1853 he was ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Dessau and from 1847 until 1853 also ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen. ...

Prince George Bernhard
Prince Paul Christian
Louise, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg
Prince Frederick Augustus
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, father =

Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg Frederick V Louis William Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (30 January 1748, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe – 20 January 1820, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) was from 1751 to his death landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. He was born under Europe's Ancie ...

, mother = Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt , birth_date = , birth_place =

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Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate Landgrave, landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668. It ...

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Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau Princess and Landgravine Christiane ''Amalie'' of Hesse-Homburg, full

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name: ''Christiane Amalie, Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg'' (29 June 1774,

– 3 February 1846,

, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau) was a member of the

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and a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg by birth. Through her marriage to

, Amalie was also a member of the

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and Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.

Family

Amalie was the fifth child of

and his wife Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of

Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt (german: Ludwig) (15 December 1719 – 6 April 1790) was the reigning Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1768 to 1790. Louis IX and his wife became the most recent common ancestors of all current European monarchs ...

Marriage and issue

Amalie married

, only surviving child of

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III Frederick Franz, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (10 August 1740 – 9 August 1817), known as "Prince Franz" or "Father Franz", was a German prince of the House of Ascania. From 1751 until 1807 he was reigning prince of the Principality of Anh ...

and his wife Margravine Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on 12 June 1792 in

. Amalie and Frederick had seven children: * Amalie ''Auguste'' of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 18 August 1793 - d.

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, 12 June 1854), married on 15 April 1816 to

Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (6 November 1793 – 28 June 1867) was a sovereign prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Biography He was born in Rudolstadt the second son of the reigning prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Louis ...

. * Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 October 1794 - d. Dessau, 22 May 1871); since 1863 Duke of all Anhalt. * George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 21 February 1796 - d. Dresden, 16 October 1865) *Paul Christian of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 22 March 1797 - d. Dessau, 4 May 1797) * ''Louise'' Fredericka of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 1 March 1798 - d. Homburg, 11 June 1858), a

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from birth; married on 12 February 1818 to her maternal uncle Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. * Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 23 September 1799 - d. Dessau, 4 December 1864). *William Waldemar of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 29 May 1807 - d.

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, 8 October 1864), married

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on 9 July 1840 to Emilie Klausnitzer (b. Dessau, 30 January 1812 - d. Vienna, 28 March 1888), created ''Freifrau von Stolzenberg'' in 1842. The

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Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

dedicated his 1800 poem ''Aus stillem Hauße senden - An eine Fürstin von Dessau'' to the Hereditary Princess.

Ancestry

References

*Jan Andres
''Auf Poesie ist die Sicherheit der Throne gegründet'' S. 89 ff.
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