Princess Alexandra of Bavaria

Alexandra Amalie Princess of Bavaria ( born August 26, 1826 Schloss Johannesburg in Aschaffenburg, † May 8, 1875 at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich ) was a member of the house of Wittelsbach and worked as a writer and translator.

Life

Origin

Alexandra Amalie was the fifth and youngest daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his wife, the Princess Therese of Saxony- Hildburghausen. Among her brothers was the future Prince Regent Luitpold.

Alexandra Amalie served as Supreme Head and Abbess of the Royal Women's pins to the " Saint Anne " in Munich and Würzburg. She was a benefactress of the city of Aschaffenburg and gained lasting service to care for the poor, for example, by 1860, she founded a poor and sick kitchen in Aschaffenburg. Even as a translator and writer, she has been known and published until her death in the works:

• Field Flowers ( sketches and stories, 1856)
• Christmas Roses ( sketches and short stories, 1858)
• Imagination and life pictures ( Free translation from the English and French, 1858)
• Small historical narratives ( After the French, 1862)

Mental disorders

Alexandra attributed to several mental disorders, including excessive urge for cleanliness. Daily had according to this source their clothes be brushed. They also suffered from the delusion of having swallowed a glass piano. When she vomited once, threw a small staff piano model in the sputum, and told her that she would now be rid of the furniture. These and similar behavioral disorders - Other sources mention a morbid fear of touching - were the real reason why the princess could not be married. Also a three -year stay in the institution could Illenau to their sufferings change anything.

Alexandra died in 1875 and was buried in the Theatinerkirche in Munich.