Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (23 June 1593 – 25 March 1650) was a German princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel who became a Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg by marriage.
Elisabeth married first on 1 January 1612 in Dresden, to Duke August of Saxony (1589–1615), the administrator of the diocese of Naumburg. August suddenly died at the age of 26, after only three years of marriage.
Elisabeth died on 25 March 1650 in Altenburg and was buried in the Brethren Church in Altenburg, to which she had donated a beaker.[1] The motto of the Duchess, who was with both an Albertine and an Ernestine,[2] was: All my delight is in God.[3] An oval gold ducats exists, depicting Elisabeth exists, showing her effigy on the obverse and a crowned "E" on the reverse. Elisabeth was a member of the virtuous society under the name the Pious.[4]
^C. E. von Malortie: contributions to the history of Brunswick-Lüneburg house and yard, Volume 2, Han'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1864, p. 154
^Theodore O. Weigel, Gustav Eduard Köhler: album of autographs for two hundred years celebration on 24 October 1848 of the Peace Treaty of Westphalia on 24 October 1648, T. O. Weigel, 1849, p. 9
^Max Lbe. Mottos: devices and aphorisms, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009, p. 210
^Erika Alma Metzger, Richard E. Schade, Language societies, gallant female poets, Rodopi, 1989, p. 617
