August by Cetto

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August Freiherr von Cetto (born September 6, 1794 , † August 7, 1879 in London ) was a royal Bavarian diplomat , councilor and treasurer.

Life

August von Cetto was the son of the lawyer and diplomat Anton von Cetto and his wife Anna nee. Cazin. He worked as the electoral Bavarian envoy in Paris and was raised to the hereditary status of baron by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph in 1812 . The Cetto family originally came from Como . These northern Italian patricians settled in Bohemia, where they were knighted by the Roman-German emperor in 1703.

Baron August de Cetto served as Bavarian ambassador at the court of St. James in London for forty years . He began his career in 1816 as a candidate for the General Commissariat of the Isarkkreis. In 1817 he moved to the Foreign Ministry, which in 1819 sent him to Saint Petersburg as an attaché . In 1820 he held the rank of legation secretary there, and since 1821 in London. The London newspaper The Times reported on his first private audience with the king under "Official dates and notices."

After the naval battle in the bay of Navarino , in which English, French and Russian ships sank a large part of the Turkish fleet on October 20, 1827, Cetto's negotiations with Lord Palmerston , the Russian ambassador Christoph von Lieven and Talleyrand led to a “State Treaty, concluded in London on May 7, 1832 from France, Great Britain and Russia with His Majesty the King Ludwig von Baiern , as guardian of their underage Prince Otto, regarding the election of Prince Otto as King of Greece, which was elevated to an independent state . "

August von Cetto married Elisabeth Catherine, daughter of Colonel Thomas Burrowes of Dangan Castle, in County Meath north of Dublin on April 11, 1831 . The couple had three children, including Anton Wilhelm von Cetto . In 1833 Cetto arrived at the imperial court in Vienna as the royal Bavarian envoy . From 1835 to 1867 he served again as Bavarian envoy in London.

Cetto was retired in 1867, lived at 6 Hill Street in Berkeley Square Garden, participated in the social life of the metropolis and, from an old age, attended receptions at court.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, Gotha 1858, p. 96 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Entry in Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Vol. 3, Altenburg, 1857, p. 835
  3. ↑ The Times No. 12895, London February 20, 1826, p. 2
  4. ↑ The Times No. 14921, London August 3, 1832, p. 3
  5. ↑ Bavaria's campaign to Greece, discussed contradictory according to the principles of law and politics . Stuttgart, 1833, p. 58 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Copy of confirmation of arms to Louis Charles Augustus de Cetto and Maximilian Henry Aemilius de Cetto, sons of Auguste Baron de Cetto, National Library of Ireland , Dublin
  7. ↑ L 'Almanach de Gotha pour l' Année 1834, Gotha 1834, p. 264
  8. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 40, ISBN 3110956845 ; (Digital scan)
  9. ↑ The Times No. 29643, London August 11, 1879, p. 11
predecessor Office successor
Christian Hubert Pfeffel von Kriegelstein
Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth 		Bavarian Envoy to the United Kingdom
1822–1833
1835–1867 		Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth
Ferdinand von Hompesch-Bollheim
Franz Gabriel von Bray-Steinburg Bavarian envoy to Austria
1833–1835 		Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld
personal data
SURNAME Cetto, August of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cetto, August Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Bavarian diplomat, state councilor and chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1794
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1879
Place of death London