Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
Philippine Charlotte of Prussia ( born March 13, 1716 in Berlin, † February 17, 1801 in Braunschweig) was a Prussian princess and by marriage Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg and Duchess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel.
Life
Philippine Charlotte was the fourth daughter of King Frederick William I of 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 on July 2, 1733 in Berlin Duke Charles I of Brunswick -Wolfenbüttel ( 1713-1780 ). Concomitant wedding of her brother Frederick with the sister of groom Philippines caused a permanent alliance of the most important North German Protestant houses Prussia and Brunswick. The phylogenetic relationship of the two dynasties meant the alliance of Charles I with his brother in the Seven Years War and the career of Philippines sons in the Prussian service. Your oldest son is with the words: "I forbid you to come back in front of my eyes when you will not have done deeds that your birth and your relationship are worthy of " approved at the Prussian military service.
Philippine Charlotte was as subtle and highly educated, she worked independently an excerpt of the philosophical writings of Christian Wolff in French. The Duchess watched very attentive also because of the influence of the ducal counselor Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem, the German intellectual life. She appreciated the poet Salomon Gessner, by their "Mother Tongue pleasant " was published for the first time, and entertained personal relationships with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Philippine Charlotte left the Wolfenbüttel library their collection of 4,000 volumes. She is buried in Brunswick Cathedral.
Two paintings today located in Weimar in Wittumspalais show Philippine Charlotte with their pooch next to a harpsichord - a later apprehended for one is currently attached to the same place portrait of her daughter Anna Amalie presentation. An embroidered by the Duchess fireplace screen is located in the concert room of the New Palace in Potsdam.
Progeny
From their marriage Philippine Charlotte had the following children:
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand II (1735-1806), Duke of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel
- Georg Franz (1736-1737)
- Sophie Karoline (1737-1817)
- Christian Ludwig (1738-1742)
- Anna Amalia (1739-1807)
- Friedrich August (1740-1805), Prince of Oels
- Albrecht Heinrich (1742-1761)
- Luise (1743-1744)
- Wilhelm Adolf (1745-1770)
- Elisabeth Christine (1746-1840)
- Friederike Wilhelmine (1748-1758)
- Auguste Dorothea (1749-1810), Abbess of Gander Home
- Maximilian Julius Leopold (1752-1785)