Prince August | |
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![]() August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg by Ernst Christian Specht, 1795 | |
Born | Gotha, Thuringia, Germany | 14 August 1747
Died | 28 September 1806 Gotha, Thuringia, Germany | (aged 59)
House | Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |
Father | Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |
Mother | Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen |
Prince August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (14 August 1747, in Gotha – 28 September 1806, in Gotha) was a German prince of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line of the Ernestine Wettins and a patron of the arts during the Age of Enlightenment.