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Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

1811 - 1890

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Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Born Princess Maria Luise Augusta Katharina of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; 30 September 1811 – 7 January 1890), was Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress as the wife of William I, German Emperor. A member of the Grand Ducal House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and closely related to the Russian Imperial House of Romanov through her mother Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, in June 1829, Augusta married Prince William of Prussia. The marriage was tense; Wilhelm actually wanted to marry his cousin, Elisa Radziwiłł, who was judged to be unsuitable by the Prussian court, and the political views and intellectual interests of the two spouses were also far apart. Despite personal differences, Augusta and William often worked together to handle correspondence and social gatherings at court. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is the 181st most popular companion (down from 147th in 2019), the 659th most popular biography from Germany (down from 581st in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Companion.

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is most famous for being the wife of Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 181 out of 784. Before her are Joanna of Bourbon, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Julie Clary, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. After her are Margaret of Provence, Barbara Radziwiłł, Isabella of Angoulême, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Wahshi ibn Harb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 11. Before her are Robert Bunsen, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Théophile Gautier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Isaac Singer, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. After her are Vissarion Belinsky, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, François Achille Bazaine, Louis Blanc, Ambroise Thomas, and Elisha Otis. Among people deceased in 1890, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 13. Before her are William III of the Netherlands, Gyula Andrássy, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Joseph Merrick, Carl Bloch, and Henri Nestlé. After her are Richard Francis Burton, William Kemmler, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, John Henry Newman, Niels Gade, and Princess Zorka of Montenegro.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 659 out of 7,253. Before her are George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), and Werner Forssmann (1904). After her are Conrad Schumann (1942), August Horch (1868), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Bruno Bauer (1809), and Johann Franz Encke (1791).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ranks 28. Before her are Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Sophia of Nassau (1836), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), and Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653). After her are Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1767), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729).

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