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Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Biography


Birth: Oct 02, 1749
Death: prob. Mar 10, 1803

Daughter of Karl I of Brunswick and Phillipine Charlotte of Prussia. She was the last Abbess at the Abbey of Gandersheim, through which she was also a member of the College of the Prelates of the Rhine.

Life with James Boswell

Boswell danced with the young princess at the court of Brunswick on August 13, 1764.

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