Adolph of Minutoli

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Adolph Hermann Emil Eugen Adalbert Menu von Minutoli (born May 31, 1802 in Berlin , † April 6, 1848 in Meiningen ) was court marshal in Sachsen-Meiningen .

Life

Adolph was the eldest son of Major Heinrich Menu von Minutoli and Sophie Charlotte, b. from Woldeck . His father was the tutor of Carl von Prussia , the third son of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia and leader of the first Prussian expedition to Egypt ; his collection forms the basis of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin . Adolph von Minutoli's brother Julius was the Berlin police chief, mediating between the people and the king, in 1848. Another brother, Alexander , was the founder of the world's first arts and crafts museum in Liegnitz and made a name for himself in the development of industry in Silesia.

After graduating from the Friedrichwerder Gymnasium in Berlin, Adolph von Minutoli studied law and administrative sciences in Berlin and Göttingen.

In 1843 he became court marshal to Duke Bernhard II of Saxony-Meiningen . Adolph von Minutoli died five years later, a few hours after a gunshot ambushed by his footman's friend.

literature

  • Dorothea Minkels : drawn in 1848. The Berlin police chief Julius von Minutoli , Norderstedt 2003, p. 2, p. 31f., P. 183 f. ( ISBN 3-8334-0096-X )
  • JC Hitzig, W. Häring, (W. Alexis) (Ed.): The new Pitaval . A collection of the most interesting crime stories from all countries, both old and new. New episode. 12. Part., FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1856, pp. 121-234: The murder of the court marshal of Minutoli .
  • Margret Dorothea Minkels: Alexander von Minutoli, the founder of the 1. Kunstgewerbemuseum der Welt (1844) , Norderstedt, 2018, p. 243f., P. 257f. ( ISBN 978-3-7460-6982-1 )
  • Harry Nehls: Doctorate in absentia - The three "academic" sons of Freiherr Heinrich von Minutoli: Adolph, Julius and Alexander von Minutoli . In: The Bear of Berlin, yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin 67, 2018, pp. 29–56.
  • Joachim S. Karig, Dorothea Minkels: Heinrich Menu von Minutoli and his outstanding family , Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-7568-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Minutoli, Adolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minutoli, Adolph Hermann Emil Eugen Adalbert Menu by (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1848
Place of death Meiningen