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Name
Leopoldine Anna von Anhalt
Born 1738
Died 1808
Alias
Leopoldine von Pfuhl
Biography

Daughter of Count Wilhelm Gustav (1699-1737) of Anhalt-Dessau and Johanna Sophie Herre (1706-1795). Married (1773) to Georg Dietrich von Pfuhl (1723-1782), Colonel of the 13th Prussian Infantry Regiment.

Life with Boswell

Boswell apparently met Leopoldine, her two sisters and mother on September 25, 1764, at the Court of Dessau. He described the three sisters as strong, bouncing women and noted that one of them was very clever.