Prince August, Duke of Dalarna

• Name — Prince August • Title — Duke of Dalarna • Full Name — Nikolaus August • Born — 24 August 1831 • Birthplace — Drottningholm Palace, Ekerö, Sweden • Died — 4 March 1873 • Place of death — Stockholm Palace, Sweden • Burial Date — 1873 3 13 • Father — Oscar I of Sweden • Mother — Josephine of Leuchtenberg • Occupation — Military • Burial Place — Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm • House — Bernadotte

• Illustration — Prince August at age 15 (1846).

August was born on 24 August 1831 at Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County. He was the youngest son of the future King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. Like his siblings, he was raised under the supervision of the governess Christina Ulrika Taube. During parts of 1849–1853, he was a student at Uppsala University; in 1866, he became drill inspector for the archipelago artillery corps, and in 1872, lieutenant general. On 10 December 1851, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. During his bachelorhood, he lived periodically at Stjernsund Castle in Askersund.

On 16 April 1864 in Altenburg, the Duke married Princess Therese Amalie of Saxe-Altenburg, Duchess of Saxony, eldest daughter of Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg and his first wife Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The marriage did not produce issue. The Prince was very interested in trains and locomotives, and the Swedish steam locomotive Prins August was named after him. Since it was commonly thought the Prince was not very bright, this led to the expression "dummare än tåget" (lit. "dumber than the train"), an expression still in use in the Swedish language.According to the Swedish Railway Museum, however, there is no evidence for this, and the expression “dumber than the train” is said to originate from the 1920s. He also had the steamship S/S Prins August named after him.

Prince August developed pleurisy and died after a few weeks of illness at the Stockholm Palace in Stockholm on March 4, 1873, at 9:30 a.m. The funeral took place nine days later, on March 13, at the Riddarholmen Church.

• Illustration — Arms of Prince August from 1831 to 1844 • Illustration — Arms of Prince August after 1844

Prince August, Duke of Dalarna was recorded at birth as Carl Nikolaus August av Sverige och Norge. His recorded confession was Lutheranism. He was the child of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. He married Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg.

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