Princess Sophie Friederike of Thurn and Taxis

Princess Sophie Friederike Dorothea Henriette von Thurn und Taxis ( born July 20, 1758 in Regensburg, † May 31, 1800 ) was a German nobleman from the House of Thurn and Taxis.

Life

Her parents were Prince Karl Anselm of Thurn and Taxis and his wife, his cousin Auguste of Württemberg. She married on 31 December 1775 in Regensburg the Polish-Lithuanian princes Hieronim Wincenty Radziwill.

For a great stir caused their liaison with the composer and pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek, who was with Radziwill 's older brother, Prince Karol Stanisław Radziwill, on the family castle in Nieswiez since about 1782 Kapellmeister. On January 17, 1784, she fled with Dussek from there over the Prussian border to Tilsit. Karol Stanislaw Radziwill reported on 25 January in a letter. From there they traveled to Hamburg, but from where the princess went alone to Regensburg and was reconciled again with her ​​husband.

In her second marriage, she married in 1795 a Mr. Kazanowski, his third wife in 1797 to the Earl Ostorog.