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Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg (10 April 1579 – 17 September 1666) called the Younger was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635 he received the Principality of Wolfenbüttel.Augustus was born in Dannenberg the seventh child of Henry Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After complicated negotiations with his family members and an intervention by Emperor Ferdinand II it was agreed that he should inherit Wolfenbüttel whose last ruler had died in 1634.
