Frederick Charles, Prince of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt
Prince Frederick Charles of SchwarzburgRudolstadt was a German Natural History collector, and from 1790 until his death the reigning Prince of SchwarzburgRudolstadt.
Frederick Charles of SchwarzburgRudolstadt was the son of Prince Louis Gnther II of SchwarzburgRudolstadt and his wife Sophie Henriette, born Countess Reuss of Untergreiz . As a child, he began his natural history collection, which later went to the Natural History Museum of Rudolstadt. In 1757, he created the Princely Natural History Collection at the Ludwigsburg Castle in Rudolstadt. The collection was later enlarged, and in the 19th century, it occupied seven rooms in the castle. One of the first supervisors of the collection was Christoph Ludwig Kmmerer. In 1919, the collection was moved to Heidecksburg Castle.
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