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See also:LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810) , See also:queen of See also:Prussia, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1776 in See also:Hanover, where her See also:father, See also:Prince See also:Charles of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz, was See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal of the See also:household See also:brigade. Her See also:mother was a princess of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt. In 1793 Louise met at See also:Frankfort the See also:crown prince of Prussia, afterwards See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Frederick See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III., who was so fascinated by her beauty, and by the nobleness of her See also:character, that he asked her to become his wife. They were married on the 24th of See also:December of the same See also:year. As queen of Prussia she commanded universal respect and See also:affection, and nothing in Prussian See also:history is more pathetic than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she See also:bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her See also:family during the See also:war between Prussia and See also:France. After the See also:battle of See also:Jena she went with her See also:husband
to See also:Konigsberg, and when the battles of See also:Eylau and See also:Friedland had placed Prussia absolutely at the See also:mercy of France, she made a See also:personal See also:appeal to See also:Napoleon at his headquarters in See also:Tilsit, but without success. See also:Early in 18o8 she accompanied the king from See also:Memel to Konigsberg, whence, towards the end of the year, she visited St See also:Petersburg, returning to See also:Berlin on the 23rd of December 1809. During the war Napoleon attempted. to destroy the queen's reputation, but the only effect of his charges in Prussia was to make her more deeply beloved. On the 19th of See also:July 1810 she died in her husband's arms, while visiting her father in Strelitz. She was buried in the See also:garden of the See also:palace at See also:Charlottenburg, where a See also:mausoleum, containing a See also:fine recumbent statue by See also:Rauch, was built over her See also:grave. In 1840 her husband was buried by her See also:side. The Louise See also:Foundation (Luisenstift) for the See also:education of girls was established in her See also:honour, and in 1814 Frederick William III. instituted the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Louise (Luisenorden). In 188o a statue of Queen Louise was erected in the Thiergarten at Berlin.
See F. Adami, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (7th ed., 1875) ; E. See also:Engel, Konigin Luise (1876); A. Kluckhohn, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (1876) ; See also:Mommsen and See also:Treitschke, Konigin Luise (1876); in See also:English, See also:Hudson, See also:Life and Times of Louisa, Queen of Prussia (1874); G. See also:Horn, Das See also:Buch von der Koni in Luise (Berlin, 1883); A. Lonke, Konigin Luise von Preussen (See also:Leipzig, 1903) ; H. von Petersdorff, Konigin Luise," Frauenleben, Bd. i. (See also:Bielefeld, 1903, 2nd ed., 1904).
End of Article: LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)
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