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Ferdinand Philipp Maria August Raphael of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary (b. Paris, 28 March 1844 - d. Coburg, 3 July 1921), was a german prince of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
He was born Prince Ferdinand Philipp Maria August Raphael of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke in Saxony, he was the eldest son of August of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary (Kohary|Fürst (Prince) Kohary de Csábrág et Szitnya from 1851) and Clémentine of Orléans.
In Brussels on 4 May 1875 Philipp married with Louise of Belgium, his second cousin (daughter of the King Leopold II of Belgium and granddaughter of the King Leopold I of Belgium, brother of Philipp's grandfather Ferdinand); their marriage ended in divorce in 1906. They have two children:
- Leopold Clement Philipp August Maria (b. Szent-Antal, Hungary, 19 July 1878 - d. Vienna, 27 April 1916).
- Dorothea Maria Henriette Auguste Louise (b. Vienna, 30 April 1881 - d. Taxis, Württemberg, 21 January 1967), married on 2August 1898 to Ernst Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
When his father died in 1881, Philipp asumed the title and states of the Kohary family and asume the name of Philipp, Prince of Kohary.