Background
She was the fourth child and third daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of George I of Great Britain.
She was the fourth child and third daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of George I of Great Britain.
She was a sister of Frederick II of Prussia, Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, and Friederike Luise, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Philippine Charlotte was described as subtle and highly educated. She worked independently of an extract of the philosophical writings of Christian von Wolff in French.
The Duchess pursued, partly because of the influence of the ducal adviser Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem, the German intellectual life very closely.
She appreciated the poet Salomon Gessner and maintained a personal relationship Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Philippine Charlotte left to the Wolfenbüttel Library her own collection of 4,000 volumes.