Anthony Ulrich, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his elder brother Rudolph Augustus, and sole
Portrait by Christoph Bernhard Francke
Young Prince Anthony Ulrich
Duke Anthony Ulrich, portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud
Schloss Salzdahlum (demolished in 1813)
Augustus II of Brunswick
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Augustus II, called the Younger, a member of the House of Welf was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635, he received the Principality of Wolfenbüttel which h
Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick
…He was one of the main proponents of enlightened absolutism among the Brunswick dukes. He was born in Hitzacker, then the residence of his father Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579–1666) and his second wife Princess Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607–1634). The next year his father, at the age of 55, assumed the rule in the…
portrait of Anselm van Hulle
Augustus in his library, engraving by Conrad Buno, about 1650
Statue of Duke Augustus on the Wolfenbüttel market square
August von Brunswick-Lüneburg, engraving after Anselm van Hulle (1717)