Joseph Charles Mellish

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Joseph Charles Mellish (* 1769 , † 1823 in London ; full name Joseph Charles of Mellish of Blyth ) was a British diplomat , poet , Schiller - Translators and Prussian nobleman .

Live and act

Mellish's property in Weimar in 1801, which he resold to Schiller as a house in 1802

Mellish was the elder son of the British MP Charles Mellish of Blyth (1737-1797). After studying at Eton, he went to Trinity College in Cambridge in 1786 . The following year, 1787, he was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn .

He was disinherited from his father for his extravagant lifestyle and gambling addiction: in his father's last will in 1794 he was given just £ 1,000, while his younger siblings received £ 9,000 each and younger brother Henry Francis received the Blyth estate.

Mellish was British consul in Louisiana in 1809 ; This was followed by an assignment in Palermo and from 1814 to 1823 he stayed in Hamburg . Mellish was the royal British chargé d'affaires and consul general to the Hanseatic cities and the Lower Saxony district , he followed Alexander Cockburn as British special envoy at the court of Hanover (1820) and became royal Prussian chamberlain.

In addition, Mellish worked as a writer and translator, who wrote or translated poetry and plays in English, Latin and German. Mellish was ennobled by the Prussian king.

Mellish married the German noblewoman Caroline Freiin von Stein (1777-1824), with whom he had several children. His daughter Amalie (1799–1872) married the royal Prussian hereditary marshal in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, royal Saxon chamberlain and chief forester of Moritzburg August Ferdinand Theodor Graf Marschall auf Burgholzhausen (1791–1867), the son of August Dietrich Marschall (1750-1824).

Works

  • Mary Stuart: a tragedy. Authorized blank English translation of Schiller's Maria Stuart, 1801 (with a biography of the translator and handwritten documentation) ( online ).
  • The dramas of Frederick Schiller. 1801.
  • Glasses for short-sighted politicians. 1804.
  • Poems. Perthes and Besser, Hamburg 1818.

literature

  • Volker Wahl: The English diplomat, writer and translator Joseph Charles Mellish of Blyth in Weimar and Dornburg between 1796 and 1804 . In: Holger Böning u. a. (Ed.): Media - Communication - Public. From the late Middle Ages to the present. Festschrift for Werner Greiling on his 65th birthday , Vienna a. a .: Böhlau 2019 (publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series; 58), ISBN 978-3-412-51669-7 , pp. 97–112.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald N. Nestroy: Duwisib . The German knight's castle in Namibia and its lord Hansheinrich von Wolf. Namibia Scientific Ges., Windhoek 2002, ISBN 3-933117-73-9 , p. 100.
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: In heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. 2nd volume, TO Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 90.
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Cockburn British envoy in Hamburg
1820–1823 		vacant
(from 1837: Henry Canning )
personal data
SURNAME Mellish, Joseph Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellish, Joseph; Mellish of Blyth, Joseph Charles of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English consul, poet, Schiller translator and Prussian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 1769
DATE OF DEATH 1823
Place of death London