See also:LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)
, See also:queen of See also:Prussia, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1776 in See also:Hanover, where her See also:father, See also:Prince See also:Charles of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz, was See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal of the See also:household See also:brigade
.
Her See also:mother was a princess of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt
.
In 1793 See also:Louise met at See also:Frankfort the See also:crown prince of Prussia, afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III., who was so fascinated by her beauty, and by the nobleness of her See also:character, that he asked her to become his wife
.
They were married on the 24th of See also:December of the same See also:year
.
As queen of Prussia she commanded universal respect and See also:affection, and nothing in Prussian See also:history is more pathetic than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she See also:bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her See also:family during the See also:war between Prussia and See also:France
.
After the See also:battle of See also:Jena she went with her See also:husband
to See also:Konigsberg, and when the battles of See also:Eylau and See also:Friedland had placed Prussia absolutely at the See also:mercy of France, she made a See also:personal See also:appeal to See also:Napoleon at his headquarters in See also:Tilsit, but without success
.
See also:Early in 18o8 she accompanied the king from See also:Memel to Konigsberg, whence, towards the end of the year, she visited St See also:Petersburg, returning to See also:Berlin on the 23rd of December 1809
.
During the war Napoleon attempted. to destroy the queen's reputation, but the only effect of his charges in Prussia was to make her more deeply beloved
.
On the 19th of See also:July 1810 she died in her husband's arms, while visiting her father in Strelitz
.
She was buried in the See also:garden of the See also:palace at See also:Charlottenburg, where a See also:mausoleum, containing a See also:fine recumbent statue by See also:Rauch, was built over her See also:grave
.
In 1840 her husband was buried by her See also:side
.
The Louise See also:Foundation (Luisenstift) for the See also:education of girls was established in her See also:honour, and in 1814 Frederick William III. instituted the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Louise (Luisenorden)
.
In 188o a statue of Queen Louise was erected in the Thiergarten at Berlin
.
See F
.
Adami, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (7th ed., 1875) ; E
.
See also:Engel, Konigin Luise (1876); A
.
Kluckhohn, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (1876) ; See also:Mommsen and See also:Treitschke, Konigin Luise (1876); in See also:English, See also:Hudson, See also:Life and Times of Louisa, Queen of Prussia (1874); G
.
See also:Horn, Das See also:Buch von der Koni in Luise (Berlin, 1883); A
.
Lonke, Konigin Luise von Preussen (See also:Leipzig, 1903) ; H. von Petersdorff, Konigin Luise," Frauenleben, Bd. i
.
(See also:Bielefeld, 1903, 2nd ed., 1904)
.
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