Friedrich August of Saxe-Eisenach
Friedrich August von Sachsen-Eisenach (born October 30, 1663 at Friedewald Castle in Friedewald , County Sayn-Altenkirchen , † September 19, 1684 in Pressburg ) was Hereditary Prince of Sachsen-Eisenach and came from the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin .
Life
Friedrich August was born as the first son of Duke Johann Georg I of Saxony-Eisenach and his wife, Johanetta , a princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein .
As a Bavarian colonel on the side of the imperial army, he took part in the Turkish Wars and the unsuccessful first siege of Ofen in 1684. Seriously wounded by a cannon shot at Ofen, he was brought to Pressburg, where he succumbed to his wounds a short time later. He was buried on October 16, 1684 in the princely crypt of the Georgenkirche in Eisenach.
His death resulted in a large number of funeral pamphlets , especially at the University of Jena , which Friedrich August understood as the reincarnation of his glorious Ernestine great-uncle Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar . He was stylized as a Saxon hero (called Hector Teutonicus , Hercules Saxonicus ) and compared to the hapless Trojan general Hector and his Greek counterpart Achilles or Hannibal . As hereditary prince and bearer of hope of his house, his early death was a painful loss for the entire court; so he was particularly mourned by the Eisenachischen and Jenaischen Leibmedicus Johann Otto Horst . His brother Johann Georg became the Hereditary Prince .
literature
- Hellmut Seemann (Hrsg.): Europe in Weimar: Visions of a continent . 2008 yearbook of the Weimar Classic Foundation. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0281-5
- C. Wülcker: Johann Georg I (Duke of Saxony-Eisenach) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 365 f.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Friedrich August of Saxe-Eisenach |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hector Teutonicus, Hercules Saxonicus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Eisenach and Bavarian Colonel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1663 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedewald |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1684 |
| Place of death | Pressburg |