Prince August, Duke of Dalarna

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Prince August
Duke of Dalarna
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Prince August of Sweden and Norway
Born (1831-08-24)24 August 1831
Drottningholm Palace, Ekerö, Sweden
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Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Spouse Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg
Full name
Nikolaus August
House Bernadotte
Father Oscar I of Sweden
Mother Josephine of Leuchtenberg
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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 thought the Prince was not very bright, this led to the expression "dummare än tåget" (lit. "more stupid than the train"), an expression still in use in the Swedish language.[3]

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

Arms

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Arms of Prince August from 1831 to 1844
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Arms of Prince August after 1844

Ancestry

Family of Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 of 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Peerage # 105635
  2. 2.0 2.1 Henri van Oene's Royal Genealogies at the Wayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009)
  3. Nu går språktåget, Dagens Nyheter, 2 March 2006, retrieved 22 October 2013
Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
Born: 24 August 1831 Died: 4 March 1873
Swedish royalty
Preceded by
None
Duke of Dalarna Succeeded by
Carl Johan Bernadotte


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