Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt

Caroline Louise
Margravine of Baden
Consort 28 January 1751 – 8 April 1783
Born (1723-07-11)11 July 1723
Palace of Darmstadt
Died 8 April 1783(1783-04-08) (aged 59)
Paris, France
Spouse Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden
Issue Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
Landgrave Frederick
Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden
House House of Hesse-Darmstadt
Father Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Mother Charlotte Christine Magdalene Johanna of Hanau

Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (11 July 1723 8 April 1783), was a consort of Baden, a dilettante artist, scientist, collector and salonist.

Biography

The daughter of Louis VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt and Charlotte Christine Magdalene Johanna of Hanau, she married on January 28, 1751 to Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden.

She is described as learned, spoke five languages, corresponded with Voltaire and made Karlsruhe to a cultural centre in Germany where she counted Johann Gottfried von Herder, Johann Caspar Lavater, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Christoph Martin Wieland among her guests. She was a member of Markgräflich Baden court orchestra and the Danish Academy of Fine Arts, draw, painted in water colours and had a laboratory set up in the Karlsruhe palace. Carl von Linné named Glückskastanie Carolinea Princeps L. after her, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser was hired to gather plants for her. She supported herself and managed a soap- and candle-factory. Her health was ruined by a fall in 1779, and she died by a stroke during a trip with her son.

Her collections were the foundation of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe.

Issue

Caroline Louise with her sons Charles Louis and Frederick.
Painting by Joseph Melling, 1757.

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Ancestry

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Landgravine Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
Cadet branch of the House of Hesse
Born: 11 July 1723 Died: 8 April 1783
German royalty
Preceded by
Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg
Margavine consort of Baden-Durlach
1751–1771
Reunification of Baden
Preceded by
Herself
as Margravine of Baden-Durlach
Margavine consort of Baden
1771–1783
Vacant
Title next held by
Stéphanie de Beauharnais
as Grand Duchess
Preceded by
Marie Victoire d'Arenberg
as Margravine of Baden-Baden
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