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Prince Augustus Ferdinand. v. t. e. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia ( German: Sophia Dorothea Marie von Preußen; 25 January 1719 – 13 November 1765) was the ninth child and fifth daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. By marriage, she was a Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt .
Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Sophia of Prussia is the 120th most popular social activist (up from 127th in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,010th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Social Activist.
Sophia of Prussia. A member of the House of Hohenzollern and child of Frederick III, German Emperor, Sophia received a liberal and Anglophile education, under the supervision of her mother Victoria, Princess Royal. In 1889, less than a year after the death of her father, she married her third cousin Constantine, heir apparent to the Greek throne.
Sophie of Prussia may refer to: Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582–1610) Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Queen of Prussia. Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719–1765) Sophia of Prussia (1870–1932), Queen of the Hellenes, wife of King Constantine I. Sophie, Princess of Prussia (born 1978) wife of Georg Friedrich ...
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Sophia Charlotte was born in Iburg Castle in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, where her father held the title of a Protestant prince-bishop. In 1672 her family moved to the new episcopal residence in Osnabrück and finally in 1679 to Hanover, when Ernest Augustus succeeded his brother Duke John Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Principality o...
By marrying Frederick on 8 October 1684, she became Electress of Brandenburg in 1688, and after the elevation of Brandenburg-Prussia to a kingdom in 1701, she became the first Queen in Prussia. Her only child to reach maturity became King Frederick William I of Prussia. Her husband was so much in love with her that while he had an official mistress...
Charlottenburg, today a district of Berlin, the Charlottensee lake in Bad Iburg, as well as the Sophie-Charlotte-Gymnasium in Berlin are named after her.
Frederick August of Brandenburg (6 October 1685 – 31 January 1686) died in infancy.Frederick William I of Prussia (14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740) married Sophia Dorothea of Hanoverand had issue.MacDonald Ross, George, 1990, "Leibniz’s Exposition of His System to Queen Sophie Charlotte and Other Ladies.” In Leibniz in Berlin, ed. H. Poser and A. Heinekamp, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1990, 6...MacDonald Ross, George, 1999, "Leibniz und Sophie-Charlotte" in Herz, S., Vogtherr, C.M., Windt, F., eds., Sophie Charlotte und ihr Schloß. München: Prestel: 95–105.Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten in Berlin-Brandenburg (Hrsg.in): Sophie Charlotte und ihr Schloss, München, London, New York 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2225-7Clemens Götze: Das "musische Preußen" Sophie Charlottes. Kunst und Politik am Hof der ersten Königin in Preußen. Grin 2008.King Frederick I of Prussia. Frederick was married three times: first, in 1679, to Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Kassel (1661–1683), with whom he had one child, Louise Dorothea, born 1680, who died without issue at age 25. then to Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668–1705), with whom he had Frederick August (1685–1686)
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Friederike Wilhelmine Augusta Luisa Charlotte. Father. Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Mother. Wilhelmine of Prussia. Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (30 August 1732 – 6 April 1780), was a German princess of the House of Hohenzollern and the Duchess of Württemberg by marriage.
