Biography

Kasimire von Anhalt-Dessau. (1749-1778)

Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, daughter of Leopold II Maximillian of Anhalt-Dessau (1700-1751) and Giesela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1721-1751). She married (1769) Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1727-1782), the recently widowed husband of her older sister Maria Leopoldine.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell was introduced to her at the court of Dessau on September 24, 1764. He danced with her, and with her two sisters, at a ball on September 29, held by the Princess Wilhelmine in honour of the deposed Duke of Courland.

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