Louis Frederick II | |
Succession: | Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Reign: | 13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807 |
Predecessor: | Frederick Charles |
Successor: | Friedrich Günther |
Spouse: | Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Homburg |
House: | House of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Father: | Frederick Charles, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Mother: | Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Issue: | Cäcilie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Thekla of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Caroline of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Bernhard of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Rudolph of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Birth Date: | 9 August 1767 |
Birth Place: | Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Death Place: | Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Louis Frederick II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (Rudolstadt, 9 August 1767 - Rudolstadt, 28 April 1807) was from 1793 to 1807 reigning Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Louis Frederick was born on 9 August 1767 in Rudolstadt and was the second child and first son of the then Hereditary Prince Frederick Charles of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and his first wife Princess Auguste of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. At that time his grandfather Louis Günther II was ruling over the principality. In 1789 Louis Frederick and his brother Karl Günther went to Geneva and other destinations for their education. During this journey they learned about the events of the French Revolution.
On July 21, 1791 in Homburg he married Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, daughter of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
From the marriage of the Prince with Caroline were born the following children:
∞ 1. 1816 Princess Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau (1793–1854),
∞ 2. 1855 Princess Helena von Anhalt-Dessau (1835–1860),
∞ 3. 1861 Lydia Maria Schultze (1840–1909),
∞ 1817 Otto Victor, Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg (1785–1859),
∞ 1827 Princess Auguste Luise of Solms-Braunfels (1804–1865),