A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Elizabeth, Christina
ELIZABETH, CHRISTINA,
Wife of Frederic the Second of Prussia, Princess of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel, was born in 1716, at Brunswick; married in 1733 and died in 1797. Being Compelled to this marriage, Frederic lived separate from her during his whole life. But on his ascending the throne in 1740, he gave her proofs of his esteem, and on his death ordered her revenue of forty thousand crowns to be increased to fifty thousand; 'for," said he, "during my whole reign she has never given me the slightest cause of dissatisfaction." Half of her income she appropriated to benevolent purposes. She translated several German works into French; and wrote in French, "La Sage Revolution;" "Meditation à l'Occasion du Renouvellement de l'Année, sur les Soins que le Providence k pour les Humains, etc.;" "Reflexions pourtous les Jours de la Semaine;" "Réflexions sur l'Etat des Affairs publiques, en 1778, addressés aux Personaes craentives."