Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Noble person
1753 – 1829
Who was Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg?
Princess Sophia Albertina of Sweden was the last Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey and as such reigned as vassal monarch of the Holy Roman Empire.
Sophia Albertina was the daughter of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. She was thus a princess of Sweden, a princess of Holstein-Gottorp and a sister to Gustav III of Sweden. She was a member of the Accademia di San Luca.
She was given her two names as namesake of her two grandmothers: the Prussian Queen Sophia Dorothea of Hanover and Margravine Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1753
Stockholm - Parents
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Died
- Mar 17, 1829
Stockholm
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on July 23, 2013
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