Landgravine Louise of Hesse Darmstadt (1757%E2%80%931830)

Landgravine Louise Auguste of HesseDarmstadt was a German princess. She was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of HesseDarmstadt. OnOctober 1775 she married duke Charles Augustus of SaxeWeimarEisenach and as such a member of the court sphere of Weimar Classicism. She was held to be serious and introverted but also compassionate and sympathetic, in the aftermath of the Battle of Jena which guaranteed her part in the later myth of Weimar .

The princess belonged to the House of Darmstadt, which held the Hessian landgraviate. She was born onJanuary 1757 in Frederick IIs Prussian capital, Berlin, where her parents were due to the Seven Years War. Her father Louis IX succeeded to the landgraviate in 1768 and was at the time of her birth fighting as a general for the Prussian forces. He was thus often away from his children and so the princesss education was in her mother Carolines hands. Caroline educated Louise in the evangelical Protestant tradition, and she became interested in literature and music.

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