Karl August, sometimes anglicised as Charles Augustus, was the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation in 1809, and grand duke from
Portrait by Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, 1822
1805 portrait of Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
Engraving depicting Karl August walking with Corona Schröter and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Karl August as Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Charles Frederick was the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
…surest foundation was in himself." Karl August's correspondence with Goethe was published in 2 volumes at Weimar in 1863. He left two surviving sons: Karl Frederick, by whom he was succeeded, and Karl Bernhard, a soldier, who, after the Congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the service of the King of…
Portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1804
Charles Frederick (right) with his sister Caroline Louise (center) and brother Bernhard (left), painted by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1798
Obverse of a Charles Frederick thaler, 1841.
Charles Frederick in his later years