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Prince August
Duke of Dalarna
Prince August of Sweden and Norway
Born(1831-08-24)24 August 1831
Drottningholm Palace, Ekerö, Sweden
Died4 March 1873(1873-03-04) (aged 41)
Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
SpousePrincess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg
Names
Nikolaus August
HouseHouse of Bernadotte
FatherOscar I of Sweden
MotherJosephine of Leuchtenberg

Prince Nikolaus August, Duke of Dalarna (24 August 1831 – 4 March 1873) was the youngest of the five children of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg.

Biography

Early life

Born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County, his eldest sibling was King Carl XV of Sweden.[1]

During parts of 1849-1853, he was a student at Uppsala University. On 10 December 1851, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Marriage

On 16 April 1864 in Altenburg, the Duke married Princess Therese Amalie of Saxe-Altenburg (Ansbach, 21 December 1836 - Haga Palace, Stockholm, 9 November 1914),[1][2] Duchess of Saxony,[2] eldest daughter of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg. The marriage did not produce issue.[1] In Sweden, his wife was styled Princess Teresia.

The Prince was very interested in trains and locomotives, and a locomotive was named after him. Since it was commonly known the Prince was not so very bright this led to the expression "dummare än tåget" (literally translated "more stupid than the train"), an expression still in use in the Swedish language, although it is not very commonly known anymore that it is actually derived from a Prince of the Royal House in the 19th century.[citation needed]

Prince August died at the age of 41 of pneumonia at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, Stockholm.[1]

Ancestry

16. Jean Bernadotte
8. Jean Henri Bernadotte
17. Marie du Pucheu
4. Charles XIV John of Sweden
18. Jean de Saint Vincent
9. Jeanne de Saint Vincent
19. Marie d'Abbadie de Sireix
2. Oscar I of Sweden
20. Joseph Clary
10. François Clary
21. Françoise Agnes Ammoric
5. Désirée Clary
22. Joseph Ignace Somis
11. Françoise Rose Somis
23. Catherine Rose Soucheiron
1. Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
24. François de Beauharnais, Marquess de la La Ferté-Beauharnais
12. Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais
25. Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastulle
6. Eugène de Beauharnais
26. Joseph-Gaspard de Tascher
13. Joséphine de Tascher de La Pagerie
27. Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sanois
3. Duchess Josephine of Leuchtenberg
28. Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken
14. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
29. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
7. Princess Augusta of Bavaria
30. Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt
15. Landgravine Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
31. Countess Marie Luise of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Heidesheim

References

  1. ^ a b c d The Peerage # 105635
  2. ^ a b Henri van Oene's Royal Genealogies
Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
Born: 24 August 1831 Died: 4 March 1873
Swedish royalty
Preceded by
None
 Duke of Dalarna Succeeded by

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