Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg

Princess and Landgravine Christiane Amalie of Hesse-Homburg,[citation needed] full German name: Christiane Amalie, Landgräfin von Hessen-Homburg[citation needed] (29 June 1774, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire[citation needed] – 3 February 1846, Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau[citation needed]) was a member of the House of Hesse-Homburg and a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg by birth.

Through her marriage to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Amalie was also a member of the House of Ascania and Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.

Amalie was the fifth child of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and his wife Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

[citation needed] Amalie married Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, only surviving child of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife Margravine Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on 12 June 1792 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, Holy Roman Empire.

[citation needed] Amalie and Frederick had seven children:[citation needed] The poet Friedrich Hölderlin dedicated his 1800 poem Aus stillem Hauße senden - An eine Fürstin von Dessau to the Hereditary Princess.