Christian August from Berkentin

Count Christian August von Berkentin

Count Christian August von Berkentin , also Berckentin (born December 8, 1694 in Dassow , † July 2, 1758 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish diplomat and a Privy Councilor of State.

Live and act

Berkentinsches Palais, Copenhagen

Coffins of the Ber (c) kentin family in Lübeck Cathedral

Berkentin came from the Mecklenburg noble family Berkentin / Parkentin , which had lived in Klützer Winkel since the Middle Ages . His father of the same name (1666–1734) was a Schleswig-Holstein privy councilor and heir to Dassow, Lütgenhof , Prieschendorf, Kaltenhof (today all districts of Dassow) and Schmachthagen (today district of Mallentin ).

At the age of 16, he enrolled at the University of Kiel in 1710 to study law. In 1711 he received a canon position at Lübeck Cathedral , which he resigned in 1719. From 1713 he went on a grand tour to Holland, France and Italy for three years . In 1716 he came to Copenhagen to the court of the Danish King Frederick IV (Denmark and Norway) as a squire of his first wife, Queen Louise († 1721). In the following years he entered the diplomatic service of the king and was part of an embassy to Stockholm in 1721 .

In 1724 he married Susanne Margaretha von Boineburg zu Honstein, who had come to Copenhagen from Hesse as the queen's maid . A daughter Louise was born to the couple in 1725, who later became court lady Louise von Plessen .

For 18 years Berkentin served as the Danish envoy at the imperial court in Vienna . In 1740 he returned to Copenhagen and became a privy councilor to King Christian VI. He took care of trade and finances and was entrusted with the supervision of the education of the Crown Prince, who later became King Christian VII .

From 1751 to 1755 he had a city palace, the Berckentinske Palæet , built in Copenhagen by Nicolai Eigtved and Johann Gottfried Rosenberg . His daughter Louise sold it to Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann ; today it belongs to the Odd Fellows . Berkentin also owned the Kokkedal and Hørsholm estates in Denmark, which he had received from Queen Sophie Magdalene in 1746 .

Christian August von Berkentin sold the goods around Dassow during his lifetime (1746) to Friedrich von Eyben , thus ending 400 years of family history in Mecklenburg.

After his death, Berkentin was buried under the north tower in the grave chapel in Lübeck Cathedral , which his father had bought . Since the destruction by the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , his sandstone sarcophagus has been together with those of his family in a south-eastern ambulatory chapel of the cathedral.

Awards

1727: Title Conference Council
1730: Knight of the Dannebrog Order
1731: Title Chamberlain
1741: Ordre de l'union parfaite
1747: Order of the elephants
1750: Elevation to the Danish count status

Works

Dissertatio Juridica De Solennitatibus In Genere, Earum Natura, Jure, Usu Et Abusu / Qvam… Præses Franc. Ernest. Vogt, Schaumburgo-Westphalus, Et Respondens Christianus Augustus de Berckenthin, Eques Megapolitanus, Ad Diem [] Junii. On. M DCC XII. In Auditorio JCtorum,… Barthold Reuther, Kiel 1712 (Kiel, Univ., Jur. Diss., 1712)

literature

Christian August from Berkentin . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 2 : Beccau – Brandis . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1888, p. 82 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Estate catalogs

Library Berckentiniana sive Index librorum bibliothecae ...: Christiani Augusti comitis de Berckentin… qvi publica auctione diuendentur Hauniae… 22. Octobr. et seqq. in 1759 . Copenhagen 1759
Directory of a collection of coins and medals, which Chr. Aug., Graf v. Berckentin left… [22/10 1759]

Web links

Commons : Christian August von Berkentin - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Dataset on and literature about Christian August von Berkentin in the state bibliography MV - No hit, November 20, 2009

Berkentine's Palace

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 405 No. 326
↑ Berckentinske Palæ (Berkentinsches Palais)
^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, Dassow pp. 392-398 (394 ff.), ISBN 3-910179-06-1
↑ On the burial place and those buried here see Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 , pp. 96f.

personal data
SURNAME	Berkentin, Christian August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berckentin, Christian August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish diplomat and Privy Councilor of State
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dassow
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1758
Place of death	Copenhagen

[1] Wolfgang Prange : Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 405 No. 326

[2] Berckentinske Palæ (Berkentinsches Palais)

[3] Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, Dassow pp. 392-398 (394 ff.), ISBN 3-910179-06-1

[4] On the burial place and those buried here see Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 , pp. 96f.