August Josef Ludwig von Wackerbarth

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August Josef Ludwig von Wackerbarth (1819)
The gravestone of August Josef Ludwig von Wackerbarth

August Josef Ludwig von Wackerbarth , pseudonym August Raugraf von Wackerbarth (born March 7, 1770 in Koschendorf near Drebkau , †  May 19, 1850 in Niederlößnitz ) was a Saxon historian, art historian and art collector. He also called himself August Graf von Wackerbarth, August J. von Wacker-Bard or August J. von Bard.

Life

Von Wackerbarth , who grew up in Kamenz , studied in Leipzig and Göttingen and did his doctorate in law. He was a great-great-nephew of the Saxon field marshal and imperial count August Christoph von Wackerbarth . In 1804 he married Baroness Friederike Sophie von Schwendendorff from the Dölitz house near Leipzig. She separated from him on January 1, 1811 in Hamburg.

Several trips took August from Wackerbarth to America and India. In 1808 he bought the retirement home built by his great-great-uncle, the Wackerbarths Ruh 'castle in the Lößnitz , today the Niederlößnitz district of Radebeul . In 1810 he acquired the title of count from his ancestors without legitimation. In 1816 he lost the castle through bankruptcy, bought it again in 1824 and had to auction it again in 1846 after the property had reached its greatest extent around 1840. He also inherited the Wackerbarth family estate Kogel near Ratzeburg from an uncle , which was temporarily under compulsory administration and after his death was confiscated by the Danish crown as a settled fiefdom and sold to the von Bülow family .

Wackerbarth designed numerous historical and art-historical works, but many of them did not go beyond the draft.

Von Wackerbarth , who was considered an eccentric at the time and was at times also under a curator , became best known through a legal dispute that lasted more than three decades against the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , in which he made enormous claims to the Duke due to one of his ancestors and never repaid loan claimed.

Wackerbarth, who also calls himself “Raugraf”, is said to have spent the last years of his life at the Zechstein winery in Zitzschewig . He is buried in the old cemetery of Kötzschenbroda .

Works

  • Parallels between Peter the Great and Charlemagne . 1792
  • Morning glances on Leipziger Allee . 1793
  • Parallels between Leopold II and Albrecht II in 1793
  • Hikes on the Rheine . 1797
  • Call to the congress that is being formed in Vienna . 1814
  • The first campaign of the Ottoman Turks in Europe .. . 1819
  • Strange story of the world famous Gog and Magog . 1820
  • The story of the last great revolution of Schina .. . 1821
  • The history of the great Teutons . 1821
  • The earliest history of the Turks to disposition .. . 1821
  • Emperor Charlemagne book collection

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All works from the addition / ID: Wackerbarth, August Joseph Ludwig von (117086355)
personal data
SURNAME Wackerbarth, August Josef Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wackerbarth, August Graf von; Wacker-Bard, August J. von; Bard, August J. von; Wackerbarth, August Raugraf von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon historian, art historian and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Koschendorf near Drebkau
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1850
Place of death Niederloessnitz