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Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, 1768-1810

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Personal name headingCharles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, 1768-1810
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Variant(s)Karl August, Crown Prince of Sweden, 1768-1810
Carl August, Crown Prince of Sweden, 1768-1810
Christian August, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1768-1810
Fredrik Kristian August, av Augustenburg, 1768-1810
Christian August, af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Augustenborg, 1768-1810
Christian August, prins af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Augustenborg, 1768-1810
Christian August, of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenborg, 1768-1810
Christian August, of Augustenborg, 1768-1810
Associated countryDenmark Sweden
Associated placeNorway
Birth date1768-07-09
Death date1810-05-28
Place of birthAugustenborg (Denmark)
Place of deathKvidinge (Sweden)
AffiliationDenmark. Hæren
Profession or occupationPrinces Generals Governors general
Found inThe prince of Scandinavia, 2015: t.p. (Prince Christian August)
OCLC #12623171: The prince of Scandinavia : a biography of Prince Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1768-1810, 1975.
LC database, Dec. 16, 2016 (heading: Karl August, Crown Prince of Sweden, 1768-1810; usage: Karl August)
Swedish Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 16, 2016 (Karl August; originally Fredrik Kristian August av Augustenburg; b. July 9, 1768, Augustenborgs slott, Denmark; d. May 28, 1810, Kvidinge hed, Skåne; third son of Duke Kristian Fredrik av Slesvig-Holstein-Sönderborg-Augustenborg; briefly Crown Prince of Sweden)
Danish Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 16, 2016 (under Christian August af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Augustenborg: Christian August, prins af Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Augustenborg, later Karl August, kronprins af Sverige)
Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 16, 2016 (under Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden: Charles August or Carl August; b. July 9, 1768, Augustenborg Palace, Augustenborg, Denmark; d. May 28, 1810, Kvidinge, Sweden; Danish prince; best known for serving as Crown Prince of Sweden briefly in 1810, adopted by Charles XIII, before his sudden death from stroke; earlier he had been a general in the Royal Danish Army as well as the Danish governor-general of Norway; his name before assuming the Swedish title in 1810 was Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenborg, Christian August of Augustenborg for short; as Crown Prince of Sweden, he changed his name to Charles August (Swedish: Carl August))
Britannica academic WWW site, viewed Dec. 16, 2016 (under Charles XIII: the Riksdag provided for the succession by naming Duke Christian August (later Charles August) heir apparent; d. 1810)