Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff (Chamberlain)

Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff , also Adolph Friedrich Witzendorff or Adolf Friedrich Witzendorf (born October 23, 1737 in Lübeck , † December 27, 1772 in Groß Zecher ) was a German landlord and prince tutor at the court of Neustrelitz .

Life

Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff came from the Lüneburg patrician family von Witzendorff ; he was a son of Hieronymus Friedrich von Witzendorff (born December 11, 1695 in Lüneburg, † June 6, 1742 in Lübeck) and his wife Christiane Luise Friederike von Jasmund (1708-1758). His father was a royal British district administrator in Lauenburg and the eldest son of the Lübeck cathedral dean Dietrich Wilhelm von Witzendorff (1661–1712). His nephew of the same name, with whom he is often confused or mixed up, was the last Provost of Lübeck, Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff (1747-1818).

Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff came to the ducal court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Neustrelitz as a chamberlain and worked here as an educator (of Karl II. (Mecklenburg) ?).

Of his five children, two sons and three daughters, from his marriage to Dorothea Sophie von Behm (1735–1774) in Neustrelitz in 1762 , the youngest son, Karl Gotthard Hieronymus von Witzendorff, was able to continue the line at Groß Zecher.

Fonts

• Lessons on the real virtues: presented in a letter to the Serene Youngest Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Harmsen, Hamburg 1762. (2nd edition. Haußwaldt, Leipzig 1763)

literature

• Witzendorff, Adolph Friedrich von. In: German Literature Lexicon . Volume 34, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-038958-6 , p. 490f. (Mixing with nephew)

Web links

• Literature on Adolf Friedrich von Witzendorff in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For genealogy see Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadligenhäuser. Sixth year, 1912, pp. 1045–1051.
2. ^ Peter von Kobbe : History and description of the country of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Volume 3, Hammerich, Altona 1837, p. 325