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August of Saxony (7 September 1589, Dresden – 26 December 1615, Naumburg) from the Albertine line of the House of Wettin was Administrator of the diocese of Naumburg -Zeitz.
Frederick Augustus I ( German: Friedrich August I.; Polish: Fryderyk August I; French: Frédéric-Auguste Ier; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827) was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as the last Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806 (as Frederick Augustus III) and as the first King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827. [1]
Augustus (born July 31, 1526, Freiberg, Saxony—died February 12, 1586, Dresden, Saxony) was the elector of Saxony and leader of Protestant Germany who, by reconciling his fellow Lutherans with the Roman Catholic Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, helped bring the initial belligerency of the Reformation in Germany to an end.
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Augustus ordered the leaders of the Crypto-Calvinists to be seized, and they were tortured and imprisoned. [3] He restored genuine Lutheranism to Saxony and began to work on a way to bring unity among Lutherans by commencing a process that would lead to the publication, in 1580, of the Lutheran Book of Concord.
Augusto nacque a Freiberg, figlio più giovane e terzo (ma secondo sopravvissuto) dei figli di Enrico IV di Sassonia e di Caterina di Meclemburgo. Egli proseguì la linea Albertina dei Wettin. Nato luterano, ricevette un'ottima educazione ed ebbe occasione di studiare all' Università di Lipsia .
1 mag 2024 · Napoleonic Wars. Frederick Augustus I (born Dec. 23, 1750, Dresden, Saxony—died May 5, 1827, Dresden) was the first king of Saxony and duke of Warsaw, who became one of Napoleon’s most loyal allies and lost much of his kingdom to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.
9 mag 2024 · Augustus II (born May 12, 1670, Dresden, Saxony [Germany]—died February 1, 1733, Warsaw, Poland) was the king of Poland and elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I). Though he regained Poland’s former provinces of Podolia and Ukraine, his reign marked the beginning of Poland’s decline as a European power.
