Princess Feodora Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

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Princess Feodora
Feodora in 1909
Born(1874-07-03)3 July 1874
Przemków
Died21 June 1910(1910-06-21) (aged 35)
Obersasbach, Germany
Burial
Primkenau Castle, Lower Silesia
HouseSchleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
FatherFrederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
MotherPrincess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Feodora Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (Feodora Adelheid Helene Louise Caroline Pauline Alice Jenny; 3 July 1874 – 21 June 1910) was a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and was the daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

Life and work[edit]

from left to right: Louise Sophie (standing), Feodora, Augusta Victoria and Ernst Günther, around 1876
Primkenau Castle around 1860, Collection Alexander Duncker

Princess Feodora was the youngest daughter of seven children of the (titular) Duke Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829–1880) and his wife Princess Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835–1900)[1], second daughter of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and the Princess Feodora of Leiningen. Through her mother, she was the great-niece of the British Queen Victoria and her eldest sister Augusta Victoria had been with the Crown Prince of Prussia since 1881 and later Emperor Wilhelm II. She spent a harmonious childhood with her siblings in Dolzig, Kiel and at Primkenau Castle in exile, which since 1853 was owned by her grandfather, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein belonged. The princess was educated exclusively at home by governesses and tutors; She spoke several foreign languages and was artistically talented and interested in many ways.[2]

Feodora studied at the Art Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. Her paternal mentor, Privy Councilor Max Lehrs, dedicated words of appreciation to her posthumously. She was a princess in spirit and what might be more said, a princess of heart and... She maintained a particularly close relationship with Fritz Mackensen, the co-founder of the Artists' Colony Worpswede near Bremen (1889) . Mackensen was her artistic teacher. The Princess visited Mackensen in Worpswede in 1899, where she also came into contact with the other members of the artist community -Heinrich Vogeler, Hans am Ende, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Modersohn – stepped. Vogeler provided the book decoration for her Fischer novel Through the Fog, published in 1908 by G. Grotesche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin.[3].

Krongut Bornstedt, around 1905

Baroness Roeder von Diersburg was the princess's lady-in-waiting in Bornstedt. Princess Feodora, who had been ailing for several years, died unexpectedly on June 21, 1910, on their property in Hochfelden in the Black Forest.[1]

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Feodora1912".
  2. ^ Prinzessin Feodora - nach Sternen jagen ... Weilburg, Thomas. - Berlin : Berlin-Story-Verl., 2008, 1. Aufl.
  3. ^ Adolf Bartels: F. Hugin (Prinzeß Feodora von Schleswig-Holstein). In: Die Heimat. Jg. 22 (1912), Heft 1, Januar 1912, S. 1–9 (Digitalisat)
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