Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau


Princess Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau was a German princess of Anhalt-Dessau who was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1816 to 1854 as the wife of Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Early life

file:Friedrich Tischbein - Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau.png|thumb|left|upright|Portrait of Auguste as a child by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1797
Auguste was born on 18 August 1793 in Dessau as the eldest child of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and his wife, Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg.

Marriage and issue

On 15 April 1816 she was married in Dessau to her first cousin, Frederick Günther, reigning Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. They had three sons:

Death

Princess Auguste died on 12 June 1854 in Rudolstadt. Her widower, Prince Frederick Günther, remarried her own niece, Countess Helene of Reina, morganatic daughter of her brother George in 1855.
Her younger brother ruled the unified duchy of Anhalt from 1863 until his death in 1871 as Leopold IV.