Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
| Karl August | |
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| Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | |
| Reign | 1815–1828 |
| Predecessor | Raised from duchy |
| Successor | Charles Frederick |
| Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | |
| Reign | 1809–1815 |
| Predecessor | New creation from personal union |
| Successor | Raised to grand duchy |
| Duke of Saxe-Weimar | |
| Reign | 1758–1809 |
| Predecessor | Ernest Augustus II |
| Successor | Union with Saxe-Eisenach |
| Regent | Dowager Duchess Anna Amalia |
| Duke of Saxe-Eisenach | |
| Reign | 1758–1809 |
| Predecessor | Ernest Augustus II |
| Successor | Union with Saxe-Weimar |
| Regent | Dowager Duchess Anna Amalia |
| Born |
3 September 1757 Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (now in Thuringia, Germany) |
| Died | 14 June 1828 (aged 70) Graditz, near Torgau, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now in Saxony, Germany) |
| Spouse | Landgravine Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (m. 1775) |
| Issue | |
| House | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
| Father | Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach |
| Mother | Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus (3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828), was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach (in personal union) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation (as a political union) in 1809, and grand duke from 1815 until his death. He is noted for the intellectual brilliance of his court.
Born in Weimar, he was the eldest son of Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (Ernest Augustus II), and Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
His father died when he was only nine months old (28 May 1758), and the boy was brought up under the regency and supervision of his mother. His governor was the Count Johann Eustach von Görtz and in 1771, Christoph Martin Wieland was appointed his tutor. In 1774 the poet Karl Ludwig von Knebel came to Weimar as tutor to his brother, the young Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin, and in the same year the two princes set out, with Count Görtz and Knebel, for Paris. At Frankfurt, Knebel introduced Karl August to the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
In Karlsruhe on 3 October 1775, after he returned to Weimar and assumed the government of his duchy, Karl August married Luise Auguste, daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
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