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.
Princess and Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt was a German princess. She was the daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. On 3 October 1775, she married duke Charles Augustus of Saxe-W
Luise von Hessen-Darmstadt, in a painting by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
The children of Charles Augustus and Louise's: Charles Frederick, Caroline Louise and Bernhard. Portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1798.