Philippine Charlotte of Prussia

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Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, later Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Philippine Charlotte von Prussia (born March 13, 1716 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1801 in Braunschweig ) was a Prussian princess and by marriage Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Life

Philippine Charlotte was the fourth daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm I in Prussia (1688–1740) from his marriage to Sophie Dorothea (1687–1757), daughter of King George I of Great Britain and thus a sister of Frederick the Great .

She married Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1713–1780) in Berlin on July 2, 1733 . The simultaneous wedding of her brother Friedrich with the sister of Philippines groom brought about a lasting alliance of the most important North German Protestant houses Prussia and Braunschweig. The family relationship between the two dynasties meant the alliance between Charles I and his brother-in-law in the Seven Years' War and the career of Filipino sons in Prussian service. She is said to have passed her eldest son into the Prussian military service with the words: " I forbid you to come before my eyes again if you have not done deeds that are worthy of your birth and your relatives ".

Philippine Charlotte was considered to be sensitive and highly educated, she independently compiled an excerpt from the philosophical writings of Christian Wolff in French. The Duchess followed German intellectual life very closely , also because of the influence of the ducal advisor Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem . She held in high esteem the poet Salomon Gessner , through whom her “ mother tongue ” appeared to her for the first time , and maintained personal relationships with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . Philippine Charlotte left her collection of around 4,000 volumes to the Wolfenbüttel library . She is buried in Braunschweig Cathedral .

Two paintings now in the Wittumspalais in Weimar show Philippine Charlotte with her little dog next to a harpsichord - a form of representation later used for a portrait of her daughter Anna Amalie at the same location . A chimney screen embroidered by the Duchess is located in the concert room of the New Palace in Potsdam .

progeny

From their marriage, Philippine Charlotte had the following children:

⚭ 1764 Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813)
⚭ 1759 Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1711–1763)
  • Christian Ludwig (1738–1742)
  • Anna Amalia (1739-1807)
⚭ 1756 Duke Ernst August II. Constantine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737–1758)
⚭ 1768 Princess Friederike Sophie Charlotte Auguste von Württemberg-Oels (1751–1789)
⚭ 1765 (deceased 1769) King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia (1744–1797)

literature

  • Helmut Schnitter: The dissimilar sisters. in the S. (Ed.): Gestalten around Frederick the Great. Biographical sketches. Volume 1, Reutlingen 1991, pp. 67-82.
  • Karin Feuerstein-Prasser: Friedrich the Great and his sisters. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2006.
  • Karin Feuerstein-Prasser: The Prussian queens. Piper 2005.
  • Anna Eunike Röhrig : Family Prussia. The siblings of Frederick the Great. Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha b. Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89772-145-6 .

Web links

Commons : Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harm Klueting, Wolfgang Schmale: The empire and its territorial states in the 17th and 18th centuries. LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, p. 60.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Havemann: History of the country Braunschweig and Lüneburg for school and house. Herold and Wahlstab, 1837, p. 247.
  3. ^ Friedrich Cramer: On the history of Friedrich Wilhelm I and Friedrich II, Kings of Prussia. Schreck, 1835, p. 77.
  4. ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. Historical commission: Archives for the history of the book industry. Volume 5, Walter de Gruyter, 1962, p. 54. ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Horst Gronemeyer, Helmut Riege, Rainer Schmidt: Hamburg Klopstock edition. Walter de Gruyter, 1988, p. 258. ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Philippine Charlotte on hab.de
  7. ^ Uta-Christiane Bergemann, Burkhardt Göres: Embroidery. Akademie Verlag, 2000, p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1801
Place of death Braunschweig