Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau | |
Full Name: | German: link=no|Amalie Auguste |
Reign: | 15 April 1816 – 12 June 1854 |
Consort: | yes |
Succession: | Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Spouse: | Frederick Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Issue: | Prince Frederick Günther Prince Günther Prince Gustav |
House: | Ascania |
Father: | Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau |
Mother: | Amalie of Hesse-Homburg |
Birth Date: | 1793 8, df=y |
Birth Place: | Dessau, Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire |
Death Place: | Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Place Of Burial: | Rudolstadt |
Princess Amalie Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (German: link=no|Prinzessin Amalie Auguste [[von]] [[Anhalt-Dessau]]; 18 August 1793 – 12 June 1854) was a German princess of Anhalt-Dessau who was Princess consort of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1816 to 1854 as the wife of Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
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 (daughter of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg).
On 15 April 1816 she was married in Dessau to her first cousin, Frederick Günther, reigning Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (son of Louis Frederick II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and his wife, Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Homburg). They had three sons:
Princess Auguste died on 12 June 1854 in Rudolstadt. Her widower, Prince Frederick Günther, remarried her own niece, Countess Helene of Reina (1835–1860), 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.