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Augustus I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Augustus
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Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Reign 17 January 1829 – 27 February 1853
Predecessor Peter I
Successor Peter II
Born (1783-07-13)July 13, 1783
Rastede
Died February 27, 1853(1853-02-27) (aged 69)
Oldenburg
Burial Ducal Mausoleum, Gertrudenfriedhof, Oldenburg
Spouse Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
Cecilia of Sweden
Issue Amalia, Queen of Greece
Duchess Frederica
Peter II
Duke Alexander
Duke August
Duke Elimar
Full name
German: Paul Friedrich August
House House of Holstein-Gottorp
Father Peter I
Mother Frederica of Württemberg
Religion Lutheranism
Full name
German: Paul Friedrich August

Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (13 July 1783 – 27 February 1853) was the Grand Duke of Oldenburg from 1829 to 1853.

Augustus was born on 13 July 1783 at Schloss Rastede near Oldenburg, to the then Prince Peter Frederick Louis of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, a daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

Augustus had one younger brother, Duke George of Oldenburg, who was a year younger than him. In 1785, at the age of twenty, his mother died in childbirth. His father never remarried.

In 1785, when Augustus was two years old, his father became Prince-Bishop of Lübeck and was furthermore appointed regent of the Duchy of Oldenburg for his incapacitated cousin William, Duke of Oldenburg.

From 1788 to 1803, the two princes were educated at home under the supervision of their father. Together with his brother, he studied at the University of Leipzig from 1803 to 1805. From 1805 to 1807 he and his brother travelled extensively in England and Scotland.

In 1808, he accompanied his father to the Congress of Erfurt, the meeting between Emperor Napoléon I of France and Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Between 1810 and 1814, Oldenburg was occupied by Napoleonic France.


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