Ferdinand Albert I, a member of the House of Welf, was a Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After a 1667 inheritance agreement in the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, he received the secundogeniture o
Ferdinand Albert of Brunswick
Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German poet, composer and impresario.
Ferdinand Albert I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
…Albert was born in Brunswick, the fourth son of Duke Augustus the Younger, reigning Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, from his third marriage with Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg. Raised at his father's residence, the young man received a comprehensive education, with Justus Georg Schottel and Sigmund von Birken among his tutors…
Engraving by Philipp Kilian, c. 1650–1676