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unusual facts about Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel



Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Anne Jean Marie René Savary

His first campaign was that waged by General Custine against the retreating forces of the duke of Brunswick in 1792.

Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Anthony Ulrich (German: Anton Ulrich; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.

Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria

Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Archimedes' cattle problem

The problem was discovered by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in a Greek manuscript containing a poem of forty-four lines, in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany in 1773.

In 1769, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was appointed librarian of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, which contained many Greek and Latin manuscripts.

Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Auguste Dorothea married on 7 August 1684 in Wolfenbüttel to Count Anton Günther II of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (16 December 1666 in Wolfenbüttel – 11 July 1751 at Augustenburg Castle in Arnstadt) was a daughter of the Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Juliane of Holstein-Norburg.

Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg

Louise married Frederick William, Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, son of Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, on 31 July 1788 in Hachenburg.

Carl Heinrich Graun

In 1735, Graun moved to Rheinsberg in Brandenburg, after he had written the opera Lo specchio della fedeltà for the marriage of the then crown prince Frederick (the Great) and Elisabeth Christine in Schloss Salzdahlum in 1733.

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488–1563), daughter of Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Margravine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1518–1574), daughter of Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, wife of Margrave John of Brandenburg-Küstrin

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 June 1563, Neuhaus upon Elbe) was a member of the house of Welf and a Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries, marquis de Castries, baron des États de Languedoc, comte de Charlus, baron de Castelnau et de Montjouvent, seigneur de Puylaurens et de Lézignan (25 February 1727, Paris - 11 January 1801, Wolfenbüttel) was a French marshal.

Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Charles also had a child out of wedlock, Christian Theodor von Pincier (1750–1824), the adopted son of Baron von Pincier of Sweden.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Having secured Longwy and Verdun without serious resistance, he turned back after a mere skirmish in Valmy, and evacuated France.

Chronica sancti Pantaleonis

The manuscripts from Brussels and Wolfenbüttel are richly illustrated with images of rulers and genealogical trees.

City Palace, Berlin

After the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Frederick William (1620–1688), the "Great Elector", embellished the palace further.

Courier chess

In 1651 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, gave to Ströbeck a playing board with chess on one side and the Courier Game on the other, and a set of silver pieces.

Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

In spite of this Ferdinand still posed an insignificant threat and it was believed he was poised to attack the Austrian Netherlands or even northern Italy.

After Minden, King George II of Great Britain gave the duke the Order of the Garter, and the thanks of the British parliament were voted on the same occasion to the victor of Minden.

He resumed a bold offensive in 1759, only to be repulsed at Bergen where he was defeated by France in the Battle of Bergen on 13 April 1759.

Ferdinand retired to Brunswick and his castle of Vechelde, where he occupied himself in building and other improvements.

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Elisabeth Christine arrived in Spain in July 1708 and married Charles on 1 August 1708 in the church of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona.

Émile de Girardin

Émile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay, and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, morganatic stepdaughter of Prince Frederick of Nassau.

Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

After the father's death in 1666, the three sons quarreled about the heritage, and Ferdinand Albert received a palace in Bevern, some feudal rights, and a certain amount of money in exchange for his claims to the government of Wolfenbüttel, which was to be ruled jointly by his elder brothers.

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

Before the building of the line there was a government crisis in Hesse in 1852, because Elector Frederick William expected a bribe of 100,000 thalers from the Bernus du Fay bank before he would sign the appropriate license for the extension of the railway towards Aschaffenburg.

Franz Ernst Brückmann

Having qualified as a medical man in 1721, he practised at Brunswick and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel.

Frederick IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

On 10 October 1746 Hungen, he married Ulrike Louise (1731–1792), the daughter of Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Frederick Louis was a son of Prince Frederick William of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1663-1735), and his wife Countess Maria Ludovica Leopoldine of Sinzendorf (1666-1709).

Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Brunswick Monument at Quatre Bras, (Genappe, Belgium) erected by the Brunswick State for the 75th anniversary.

Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Friedrich Wilhelm was married on 28 June 1843 at Buckingham Palace to his first cousin, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, a member of the British Royal Family and a granddaughter of King George III.

Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Frederick William of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (20 September 1663 in Hechingen – 14 November 1735 in Hechingen) was the fourth Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and was also an imperial Field Marshal.

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 October 1768, The Hague – 9 January 1816, Weilburg) was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg.

Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels

When his father died on 18 February 1724, he became Count of Somls-Braunfeld, Greifenstein and Hungen, Tecklenburg, Kriechingen and Lingen, Lord of Münzenberg, Wildenfels, Sonnewalde, Püttlingen, Dortweiler and Beaucourt.

George Louis, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

George Louis married on 19 February 1638 in Coppenbrügge to Anna Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1612-1673), a daughter of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Elizabeth of Denmark.

German Free-minded Party

The economists Ludwig Bamberger and Georg von Siemens, as well as the social liberal politician Eugen Richter were among the prime movers of the fusion, in the view of the coming accession of considered "liberal" Crown Prince Frederick William to the throne (which took place only in 1888).

Girolamo Sartorio

During his time in Hanover he wrote a report for the construction of a library in Wolfenbüttel, on a request of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, then a librarian there.

Jaroslav Miller

He was twice appointed a fellow of the prestigious German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel).

Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel

Invited to Berlin by Frederick William, in 1679 he became director of the laboratory and glass works of Brandenburg.

Jørgen Lunge

Just a few weeks later, he received orders to recruit a regiment of 2,000 men for use against the city of Brunswick in support of the king's relative, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Marco Sgarbi

He was Frances A. Yates Short-Term Research fellow at the Warburg Institute, research fellow at the Università di Verona, Fritz Thyssen fellow at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, research fellow at the Accademia dei LinceiBritish Academy, and Jean-François Malle-Harvard I Tatti Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

Seesen and Gandersheim were separated from Brunswick-Göttingen and attached to Henry's part of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

By German Mediatisation, the county Dietz and its dependencies, and the Lordships Wehrheim and Burbach, all came under the sovereignty of the Duke of Nassau-Usingen and the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

Weimar map

Ruge also contended that the "he" and the large space after it is enough to fit hectomanni Fredutijs, thereby proposing its author was the cartographer Conte di Ottomano Freducci of Ancona (fl. 1497-1539), author of the 1497 Wolfenbüttel map.

Wolfenbüttel–Helmstedt railway

The section from Wolfenbüttel to Jerxheim was opened in 1843 and was one of the oldest railways in Germany and part of the main line between Berlin and western Germany until the opening of the Berlin–Lehrte railway in 1871.


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