Carl von Graffen

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Carl von Graffen (born March 3, 1793 in Hamburg ; † December 18, 1852 ibid) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Carl von Graffen came from a branch of the originally Austrian noble family von Graffen , who had settled in Hamburg as merchants and lawyers . He was the son of the Bergedorf administrator Nikolaus von Graffen (1754-1816); the Hamburg mayor Friedrich von Graffen was his uncle. He visited the Hamburg Johanneum . As a lieutenant he took part in battles of the German-English Legion against Napoleon from 1813 to 1814 , and from 1818 studied law at the University of Göttingen with a doctorate. jur. at the University of Berlin .

On June 9, 1822 by Graffen in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted he was enrolled as such until the 1824th In 1824 he became Hamburg chargé d' affaires and in 1839 Hamburg minister resident in Vienna . He died in 1852 at the age of 59 during a short trip to Hamburg.

Fonts

  • Theses / Quas ... pvblice defendet Carolvs de Graffen Hambvrgensis. Baier, Göttingen 1821.

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Schröder u. a .: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Dassovius-Günther . Perthes , Hamburg 1854, p. 552, 554 f . ( online ).
  2. ^ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923725-17-5 , p. 325.
predecessor Office successor
Vincent Rumpff Hanseatic Minister- Resident in Austria
1824–1848
Ludwig von Biegeleben