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|title=Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

|author=Frances A Gerard

|publisher=Fonthill Media

|date=June 2012

|summary=A biography of Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, best remembered as the patron of Goethe and other men of letters who helped to make Weimar the cultural centre of 18th-century Germany

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Anna Amalia of Brunswick, a Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach in the eighteenth century, is scarcely little more than a footnote in European royal history these days. Nevertheless it was mainly through her patronage that the court of Weimar became one of the most artistically renowned of the time, a reputation it never lost throughout the increasingly militaristic times that Germany went through from the age of Bismarck and beyond.