Burchard von Suhm

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Burchard von Suhm (born June 5, 1666 , † March 14, 1720 in Paris ) was a Saxon and Polish diplomat .

family

Burchard von Suhm came from the noble family Suhm and was a son of the royal Danish state councilor and administrator in Pinneberg Heinrich von Suhm (1636-1700) and Margareta Dorothea von Felden (1648-1711).

His brothers were u. a. the Danish admiral Ulrik Frederik von Suhm (1686–1758) and the Electorate Major General Ernst Heinrich von Suhm (1668–1729). The historian Peter Frederik Suhm (1728–1798) was his nephew.

Suhm had been married to Gesilla von Brüggemann (1672–1711) since 1689. The marriage resulted in six daughters and seven sons. Including the two diplomats Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm (1691–1740) and Nicolaus von Suhm (1697–1760), the Schoutby Night Heinrich von Suhm (1693–1744), and Lieutenant General Peter von Suhm (1696–1760) from the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

He studied in Strasbourg , Geneva , Frankfurt and from 1686 in Leipzig . This was followed by several trips through France. It then appears that after 1700 he initially succeeded his father as administrator in Pinneberg.

Presumably, like others in his family, he followed the call of Anna Sophia , the wife of the elector, to the Saxon court in Dresden.

There he was first chamber and legation councilor, then privy councilor. With the support of Jacob Heinrich von Flemming , he became the Saxon ambassador to France in 1709 , took part with his son Nicolaus for Electoral Saxony at the Peace Congress in Utrecht and became a Privy Council of War in 1714.

He died in Paris in 1720, and was succeeded by Carl Heinrich von Hoym as ambassador to France .

literature

  • Zbigniewa Wójcika (Ed.): Historia Dyplomacji Polskiej. Volume II, 1572-1795, Warszawa 1982, pp. 406, 446.
  • Judith Matzke: Legation and diplomatic service of Saxony 1694-1763. (Dissertation) Dresden, 2007, PDF , p. 373

Remarks

  1. Danmarks Adels Aarbog 45 (1928), Afsnit 2, pp. 119–128