Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German poet, composer and impresario.
Engraving by Philipp Kilian, c. 1650–1676
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
Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg
…court of Kassel, which also had a strong musical tradition, when the Thirty Years War threatened her court in 1628. In 1635, she married the learned Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg with whom she had two children: Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg…
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)