| Princess Feodora | |
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 Feodora in 1909 | |
| Born | 3 July 1874 Przemków |
| Died | 21 June 1910 (aged 35) Obersasbach, Germany |
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| House | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
| Father | Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein |
| Mother | Princess 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
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].
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
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References
- ^ a b "Feodora1912".
- ^ Prinzessin Feodora - nach Sternen jagen ... Weilburg, Thomas. - Berlin : Berlin-Story-Verl., 2008, 1. Aufl.
- ^ 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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