Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl
Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl (occasionally also: Albrecht Christian Heinrich von Brühl ; * July 11th / 12th, 1743 in Dresden ; † March 30th, 1792 in Pförten ) was a Knight of the Order of Malta , Saxon and Prussian Major General and Prussian diplomat.
Life
He was the son of the Saxon Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl and his wife Maria Anna Franziska, née Countess von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1717–1762).
As early as 1746 he joined the Electoral Saxon army . There he was listed as a lieutenant in the Chevaulegers regiment "Graf Brühl" in 1748 and from January 14, 1749 as a prime lieutenant . On September 29, 1750 he became a captain with his own company and rose to lieutenant colonel by the end of February 1762 . On February 11, 1763 he was assigned to the "Graf Brühl" infantry regiment , and on May 21, 1763 was promoted to colonel and chief of the regiment.
At the Saxon court, Brühl had already become chamberlain on January 1, 1757 and chamberlain on March 10, 1759. In 1764 he left the military, but was re-employed as adjutant general in 1767. In 1775 he became the commandant of the infantry regiment "Prince Maximilian", in 1783 then major general and chief of the infantry regiment "Graf Anhalt". In 1787 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II brought him and his brother Carl Adolph into his service and became the Prussian representative at the Bavarian court. He was also appointed major general by the king and, in 1792, chief of the von Tiedemann infantry regiment . He died shortly afterwards.
In 1762 he traveled to Naples with the archaeologist Winkelmann .
family
Brühl married Laura Maria Walpurgis Countess von Minucci (1759–1824) on November 11, 1780, the daughter of the Bavarian Lieutenant General Carl Adolf von Minucci and had the following children with her:
- Friedrich August Karl Heinrich Mauritius (1781–1825)
- Heinrich Franz Xaver (* / † 1782)
- Max Heinrich (1785-1836)
- Joseph August Laure (* / † 1786)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Karl (1788–1867), Prussian lieutenant general
- ∞ Bertha von Tschirschky (1800–1825)
- ∞ Henriette von Camuzi (1803–1883), sister of Gideon von Camuzi
- Aloys Franz (1790–1792)
- Josephine Amalie Charlotte (* / † 1792)
literature
- Karl Christian Kanis Gretschel , Friedrich Bülau : History of the Saxon people and state. Volume 3, Leipzig 1853, p. 135 ( digitized version )
- Anton Balthasar König : Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 4 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1791, p. 356 ( Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl at Wikisource [PDF]).
- Eduard Vehse : History of the German Courts since the Reformation. Volume 2, 1853, p. 242, digitized version (Diplomatic Corps in Munich)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Epistles from the Herculan discoveries ... Dresden 1762, p. 3
- ^ Winckelmann in Italy: with sketches on the history of art and scholars in the eighteenth century, p. 369.
- ↑ Genealogical-historical-statistical almanac: On the year 1848 . P. 515. ( digitized version )
- ^ General genealogical and state handbook. P. 482. ( digitized version )
- ^ Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses for the year 1838. Volume 11, p. 569. ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brühl, Albert Christian Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brühl, Albrecht Christian Heinrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian diplomat, Saxon and Prussian major general, knight of the Order of Malta |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1743 or July 12, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1792 |
| Place of death | Gates |