Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
| Prince August | |||||
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| Duke of Dalarna | |||||
 Photograph of Prince August, c. 1864 | |||||
| Born | 24 August 1831 Drottningholm Palace, Ekerö, Sweden | ||||
| Died | 4 March 1873 (aged 41) Stockholm Palace, Sweden | ||||
| Burial | March 13, 1873 | ||||
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| House | Bernadotte | ||||
| Father | Oscar I of Sweden | ||||
| Mother | Josephine of Leuchtenberg | ||||
| Occupation | Military | ||||
Prince Nikolaus August of Sweden and Norway, 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
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Early life
[edit]August was born on 24 August 1831 at Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County. He was the youngest son of the future King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. Like his siblings, he was raised under the supervision of the governess Christina Ulrika Taube.
During parts of 1849–1853, he was a student at Uppsala University; in 1866, he became drill inspector for the archipelago artillery corps, and in 1872, lieutenant general. On 10 December 1851, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. During his bachelorhood, he lived periodically at Stjernsund Castle in Askersund.[1]
Marriage
[edit]On 16 April 1864 in Altenburg, the Duke married Princess Therese Amalie of Saxe-Altenburg,[2] Duchess of Saxony,[2] eldest daughter of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg and his first wife Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The marriage did not produce issue.[3]
The Prince was very interested in trains and locomotives, and the Swedish steam locomotive Prins August was named after him. Since it was commonly thought the Prince was not very bright, this led to the expression "dummare än tåget" (lit. "dumber than the train"), an expression still in use in the Swedish language.According to the Swedish Railway Museum, however, there is no evidence for this, and the expression “dumber than the train” is said to originate from the 1920s.[4] He also had the steamship S/S Prins August named after him. [5]
Death
[edit]Prince August developed pleurisy and died after a few weeks of illness at the Stockholm Palace in Stockholm on March 4, 1873, at 9:30 a.m. The funeral took place nine days later, on March 13, at the Riddarholmen Church.[6]
Honours and arms
[edit]Honours
[edit]He received the following orders and decorations:[7]
[[Order of the Seraphim|
Knight and Commander of the Orders of His Majesty the King's Orden]] (Order of the Seraphim), 24 August 1831.
[[Order of the Seraphim|]] Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 24 August 1831.
[[Order of the Seraphim|]] Commander Grand Cross of the Sword, 24 August 1831.
Commander Grand Cross of the Polar Star, 24 August 1831
Grand Cross of St. Olav, with Collar, 21 August 1847[8]
Grand Cross of Albert the Bear, 21 April 1864[9]
Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1870[10]
Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 9 June 1852[11]
Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, April 1861[12]
Kingdom of Hanover: Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, 1852[13]
Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class
Nassau: Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau, July 1858[14]
Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion
Russian Empire: Knight of St. Andrew, 1863
Russian Empire: Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
Russian Empire: Knight of the White Eagle
Russian Empire: Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
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Arms
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Arms of Prince August from 1831 to 1844
Arms of Prince August after 1844
Ancestry
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References
[edit]- ↑ "Prince August". www.kungahuset.se. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- 1 2 "Henri van Oene's Royal Genealogies". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Prince Nikolaus August, Duke of Darlana". Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ "SvD | Bloggarkivet | Dummare än tåget, igen". blog.svd.se. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ Grünbaum, Catharina (2 March 2006). "Nu går språktåget". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ↑ biblioteket, Kungliga. "DAGENS NYHETER 1873-03-14 | Svenska tidningar". Svenska tidningar (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2025-01-14. Retrieved 2026-05-19.
- ↑ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1872, p. 460, retrieved 2018-01-06 – via runeberg.org
- ↑ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1864, p. 604, retrieved 2018-01-06 – via runeberg.org
- ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch für das Herzogthum Anhalt (1867), "Herzoglicher Haus-Orden Albrecht des Bären" p. 18
- ↑ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1872) [1st pub.:1801]. Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1872 [State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1872] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. p. 3. Retrieved 3 May 2020 – via da:DIS Danmark.
- ↑ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtums Sachsen-Altenburg (1869), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 21
- ↑ Staat Hannover (1858). Hof- und Staatshandbuch für das Königreich Hannover: 1858. Berenberg. p. 72.
- ↑ Staats- und Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Nassau: 1859. Schellenberg. 1859. p. 8.
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