A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Æmelia Juliana

4092679A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Æmelia Juliana

ÆMELIA JULIANA,

Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, was the daughter of Abul Fredrick, Count of Barby; she was born on the 10th. of August, 1637, and in 1665, married Count Abert Anton, whose title she bore. She died on the 2nd. of December, 1706, and left behind her a reputation for great piety and benevolence, and some poetical talent, resting in some spiritual poems composed during her hours of leisure; many of these were subsequently adopted into the hymn books used in the Protestant churches of Saxony and Thuringia.