Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Frederick V
Frederick V, c. 1815
Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Reign7 February 1751 – 20 January 1820
PredecessorFrederick IV
SuccessorFrederick VI
Born(1748-01-30)30 January 1748
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Died20 January 1820(1820-01-20) (aged 71)
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Spouse
(m. 1768)
IssueFrederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Louis William, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Caroline, Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Louise, Princess Charles Günther of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Amalie, Hereditary Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
Auguste, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Ferdinand, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Maria Anna, Princess William of Prussia
Prince Leopold
HouseHesse
FatherFrederick IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
MotherUlrike Louise of Solms-Braunfels

Frederick V Louis William Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (30 January 1748, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe – 20 January 1820, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) was from 1751 to his death landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

He was born under Europe's Ancien Regime but lived to see the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the rise and fall of Napoleon I, the Congress of Vienna and its establishment of a new geopolitical order in Europe and Germany. Unlike his predecessors and successors, he was not keen on war and instead became one of the patrons of German Geistesgeschichte, corresponding with Lavater and Klopstock and visiting Voltaire, D’Alembert and Albrecht von Haller. He was caustic, conservative but popular with his people.