Background
He was the second (but only surviving son) of Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen by his wife Louise Karoline Theodora Amalie, daughter of the later (1806) Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
He was the second (but only surviving son) of Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen by his wife Louise Karoline Theodora Amalie, daughter of the later (1806) Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
Louis Augustus was born posthumously, four days after the death of his father, on 16 September 1802. When Augustus Christian Frederick died in 1812, Louis Augustus succeeded him at the age of ten. Louis Augustus died at only sixteen years of age and because he was still a minor, he never ruled on his own.