- First name
- Elizabeth
- Last name
- Bohemia, of
- Date of Birth
- 1618
- Date of Death
- 1680
- Born in
- Heidelberg
- Died in
- -
Elizabeth of Bohemia was the eldest daughter of Elector Palatine Frederic V of Wittelsbach (1596–1632) and Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662). She joined (1661) the Lutheran convent of Herford (Westphalia), and was appointed abbess of the convent (27 or 30 April 1667) which gave her a seat in the German Diet. She was befriended by, among others, Descartes and Leibniz. Descartes' Les Passions de l’âme (Passions of the Soul) was the result of the correspondence with Elizabeth. See: Descartes, 2003, pp. 258–61.