Kasimire von Anhalt-Dessau
Biography
Birth: 1749
Death: 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.
Mentioned in
Kasimire von Anhalt-Dessau is mentioned in:
- Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764
