Silvius Nimrod and his older brother Charles Ferdinand went on a Grand Tour.
As Julius was still a minor, Silvius Frederick acted as his regent until he came of age.
Silvius Frederick married on 7 May 1672 in Oels with Eleonore Charlotte (1656–1743), the daughter of the Duke George II of Württemberg-Montbéliard.
He was a member of the Fruitbearing Society under the nickname der Schützende ("the Protector").
By order of his mother, Oels fell to her next younger son, Christian Ulrich I.