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Charles Augustus | |
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![]() Portrait by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, 1822 | |
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | |
Reign | 9 June 1815 – 14 June 1828 |
Predecessor | Raised from duchy |
Successor | Charles Frederick |
Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | |
Reign | 20 September 1809 – 9 June 1815 |
Predecessor | New creation from personal union |
Successor | Raised to grand duchy |
Duke of Saxe-Weimar | |
Reign | 28 May 1758– 20 September 1809 |
Predecessor | Ernest Augustus II |
Successor | Union with Saxe-Eisenach |
Regent | Dowager Duchess Anna Amalia |
Duke of Saxe-Eisenach | |
Reign | 28 May 1758– 20 September 1809 |
Predecessor | Ernest Augustus II |
Successor | Union with Saxe-Weimar |
Regent | Dowager Duchess Anna Amalia |
Born | Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (now in Thuringia, Germany) | 3 September 1757
Died | 14 June 1828 Graditz, near Torgau, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now in Saxony, Germany) | (aged 70)
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Issue | |
House | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
Father | Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach |
Mother | Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
Religion | Lutheranism |
Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political union) in 1809, and grand duke from 1815 until his death. He is noted for the intellectual brilliance of his court.[1]