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I think it should be Louisa Ulrika of Prussia or Louisa Ulrica of Prussia. See also
Talk:Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden. --
Martinl 07:54, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have renamed her now. --
Martinl 19:12, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Should probably fix Lovisa to Louisa in the text for consistancy, no?
Where did the name "Louisa" come from here? English: Louise; German: Luise; Swedish: Lovisa; mid-18th-century Swedish: Ludvika - so how do we get "Louisa" - WP invention? Isn't she mainly known in English as Louise Ulrica?--
SergeWoodzing (
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00:55, 19 August 2013 (UTC)reply
What about "Louise Ulrika"? And why name a Prussian princess /Swedish queen according to a very unusual name form used by a couple of English princesses (the regular English name being Louise)? --
SergeWoodzing (
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13:38, 20 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Whether we like a name or find it very unusual or interesting is not a valid criterium for choosing article titles. The English princess
Louisa Maria Teresa is known by that same name, not as
Louise Mary Theresa, despite what we may consider to be regular English names. Curiously (but still irrelevantly), Louisa is the regular English name, having been in use since the 17th century.
Louise is the French form of Louisa, and it wasn't until the 19th century that Louise became popular, and only recently it became much more common than the original English form. See
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names. The same is true for the name
Sophia, which is now competing in popularity with the French form Sophie. I suppose this woman is still best known as Louisa Ulrica because, in her day and age, the original English form was virtually the only that existed and she was left stuck with it. Anyway, "Louisa Ulrica" is more than four times more common than
Louise Ulrika.
Surtsicna (
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14:36, 20 August 2013 (UTC)reply