Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing

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Portrait of Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing, from 1810 Baron von Anthing

Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing , from 1813 Baron von Anthing or d'Anthing (born November 11, 1766 in Gotha ; † February 7, 1823 there ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general , in the Dutch service.

Life

Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing was the youngest son of the garrison preacher in Gotha Johann Philipp Anthing (1718–1772) and his wife Dorothea Amalia, b. Schierschmidt (1732-1797). His father died when he was five years old with seven children. The silhouetteur Johann Friedrich Anthing was his oldest brother.

In 1783 he joined the hereditary prince regiment in Altenburg as a cadet , but in 1786 he switched to the Dutch regiment as an ensign , a Saxon-Gotha subsidiary regiment that was paid for by the Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces .

Anthing remained loyal to the regiment, which changed employers several times due to the changeable rulership of the provinces during this time: “Depending on the changing fortunes of Holland, Anthing's employment relationships also changed, but as an Orange as well as a republican, as a royal as well as a Napoleonic, as a Bourbonist and finally again as an Orange, his unrelenting loyalty to duty never changed, and that is why all parties honored him. "

Still deployed against the Patriots in 1787 , he saw the end of the government of governor William V (Orange) and the establishment of the Batavian Republic, which was dependent on France . In 1798 he was a commander ( major ) in The Hague and was responsible for the internment of opposition politicians in the Huis ten Bosch . In 1799, in the Second Coalition War, he successfully led his soldiers against the invasion of Anglo-Russian troops, which had landed in North Holland near Alkmaar in August and September ; the Directory of the Batavian Republic promoted him to Général de division . When Napoleon Bonaparte transformed the republic into the Kingdom of Holland , Anthing became adjutant general to King Louis Bonaparte . 1805 was in the corps of Marshal Bernadotte in Frankfurt am Main . In 1809 he was at the head of a Dutch brigade that took Wismar on May 26th and then defeated and killed Ferdinand von Schill near and in Stralsund . From September 1809 he was governor of the Breda Fortress .

When Napoleon annexed Holland in 1810, Anthing was accepted into the French army with the lower rank of Général de brigade . Here he made the campaigns of 1812 and 1813; he was lightly wounded in the battle of Großgörschen (Lützen) and seriously wounded in the battle of Bautzen . As a convalescent he was sent to Strasbourg and thus escaped the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . On July 19, 1813, Napoleon appointed him Baron of the Empire (Baron d'Empire).

After Prince William of Orange landed in Holland in November 1813, Anthing returned to the service of the Netherlands . In 1814 he distinguished himself at the head of the so-called Indian Brigade in the successful siege of Le Quesnoy . King Wilhelm I then promoted him to lieutenant general .

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Anthing was appointed governor general of Batavia and commander in chief of the colonial troops, which later became the Royal Dutch Indian Army . Bad health, he asked to be released in 1819, which was also granted to him with an honorary salary .

He spent the last years of his life in Gotha.

He was initially married to Anna Maria Brascamp (1768–1802) from 1792 and, after her death, to Johanna Amalia Sophie von Lettow (1783–1848), the widow of the Dutch officer Johann Heinrich Traugott Vogel, who had been missing since 1807. His descendants later took the name Anthing Vogel .

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Album Amicorum

Title drawing from Antring's album amicorum with his motto: Thue right, and don't tremble!

Anthing led an album Amicorum , which includes 204 entries from 1784 to 1818 on 113 sheets, some with emblem drawings. It is now kept in the Royal Library of the Netherlands . The entries made by the deputies interned by Anthing in the Huis ten Bosch in 1798 are of particular importance . On the front inner lid, Anthing points out with his own hand that notes and profanity should be avoided.

Letters and ethnographic pieces from Java

Two official letters in Javanese to Anthing from 1816 found their way into the ducal collection, today's University and Research Library in Erfurt / Gotha .

Johann Georg August Galletti described Anthing's rich collections of birds, butterflies, conchylia , weapons, idols from the East Indian islands , which he had brought with him from Java and Borneo , in Gotha and its surroundings in 1824 as one of the city's sights. They were bought by the ducal court after 1824 and, together with Ulrich Jasper Seetzen's collection, formed the Oriental Museum at Friedenstein Castle .

Awards

literature

  • Baron Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Volume I / 2 (1823), Voigt, Ilmenau 1824, p. 788 f.
  • PC Molhuysen: Anthing (Carl Heinrich Wilhelm). In: PJ Blok (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Volume 5. AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1921, pp. 20-24. (Full text)

Web links

Commons : Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ADB article on the brother has (probably erroneously) 1757
  2. ^ According to the widow's obituary in the Allgemeine Anzeiger and the National Newspaper of the Germans . 65 (1823), col. 489-490; New Nekrolog and others have February 8th
  3. ^ According to New Nekrolog.
  4. ↑ The nobles in Gotha regarded it as a kind of Siberia, but it was an excellent and proven regiment from the ages. Hermann Uhde: HAO Reichard (1751-1828): His autobiography. Cotta, Stuttgart 1877, p. 475.
  5. ^ Hermann Uhde: HAO Reichard (1751-1828): His autobiography. Cotta, Stuttgart 1877, p. 475.
  6. ^ Hermann Uhde: HAO Reichard (1751-1828): His autobiography. Cotta, Stuttgart 1877, p. 476.
  7. ^ Sandra Sider: Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts. McGill-Queen's Press, Montreal 1992, ISBN 0-7735-1550-X . (Corpus Librorum Emblematum 1), p. 6 (No. 20)
  8. ↑ Absint notae et Obscena. Anthing. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / resources42.kb.nl
  9. ^ Description from Wilhelm Pertsch: The oriental manuscripts of the ducal library in Gotha. Perthes, Gotha 1893, p. 24f (No. 49 = Cod. As. Orient. No. 12 and No. 50 = Cod. As. Orient. No. 11 )
  10. ^ See communications from the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research. 1906/07, p. 40.
  11. ↑ Gotha and its surroundings, by the court councilor and historiographer Galletti, with a floor plan and a view of Gotha. Gotha 1824, pp. 51-61.
  12. ↑ See also Adolf Moritz Schulze : Heimathskunde for the residents of the Duchy of Gotha. Glasses, Gotha 1845, p. 75.
  13. ↑ Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck : Almanach of the knight orders. Volume 2, Goeschen, Leipzig 1818, p. 20 ( books.google.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Anthing, Carl Heinrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anthing, Baron Carl Heinrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general, in Dutch service
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1823
Place of death Gotha