Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

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Frederick
Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau (27 December 1769 – 27 May 1814), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and heir to the principality (and from 1807 the duchy) of Anhalt-Dessau.

He was born in

Louise, daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. His only sibling, a sister born on 11 February 1768, was either stillborn or died shortly after her birth.[1]

Life

Memorial to Hereditary Prince Frederick in Kühnauer Park.

In 1786 he joined to the

Prussian army, where he later obtained the rank of Generalfeldmarschall. In 1805 he contracted to build Kühnauer Park
.

Frederick died in

Leopold Frederick
, who succeeded his grandfather in 1817 with the name Leopold IV.

Marriage and issue

In

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]

  1. Frederick Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
    .
  2. Leopold IV Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and since 1863 Duke of all Anhalt (b. Dessau, 1 October 1794 – d. Dessau, 22 May 1871).
  3. George Bernhard (b. Dessau, 21 February 1796 – d. Dresden, 16 October 1865).
  4. Paul Christian (b. Dessau, 22 March 1797 – d. Dessau, 4 May 1797).
  5. Louise Fredericka (b. Dessau, 1 March 1798 - d. Homburg, 11 June 1858), a deaf-mute from birth; married on 12 February 1818 to her uncle Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (brother of her mother).
  6. Frederick Augustus (b. Dessau, 23 September 1799 – d. Dessau, 4 December 1864).
  7. William Waldemar (b. Dessau, 29 May 1807 – d. Vienna, 8 October 1864), married morganatically on 9 July 1840 to Emilie Klausnitzer (b. Dessau, 30 January 1812 – d. Vienna, 28 March 1888), created Freifrau von Stolzenberg in 1842.

Connection with Mozart

The text of the German song "Des kleinen Friedrichs Geburtstag", K. 529, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was originally written in 1778 by the poet Johann Eberhard Friedrich Schall to commemorate the ninth birthday of the Hereditary Prince Frederick. It is unknown how Mozart came across this text or why he chose to set it in Prague in 1787. All that is known is that it was entered into his own catalog of musical compositions as a completed work on 6 November 1787.

References

  1. ^ Genealogical data of the rulers of Anhalt Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Marek, Miroslav. "Complete Genealogy of the House of Ascania". Genealogy.EU.[self-published source]
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