Christian Friedrich von Harling

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The head stable master of Harling on April 20, 1680 with an allonge wig and baroque robe

Christian Friedrich von Harling (also: Friedrich Christian von Harling ; born August 21, 1631 on Gut Neuenfelde near Oldenburg , † July 4, 1724 in Hanover ) was a German valet , court cavalier , electoral Hanoverian chief stable master and privy councilor .

Life

Coat of arms of Christian Friedrich von Harling

Born at the time of the Thirty Years' War as a descendant of the noble family of Harling on the estate Nienfelde (or Neuenfelde) in Oldenburg, Christian Friedrich von Harling started in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 graduated in Helmstedt at the city's Academia Julia Carolina .

From 1650 to 1655 von Harling worked as a conventual in Lüneburg in the local St. Michaelis monastery . From 1659 he entered the service of Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg as court cavalier , when he was still a Protestant bishop in Osnabrück .

In 1662 von Harling married Anna Catharina von Offen , the first lady-in-waiting of the future Electress Sophie von der Pfalz , who was also the tutors of the Hanoverian princes and princesses. In particular, numerous of the so-called “Harling letters” from Liselotte von der Pfalz , Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of King Louis XIV of France , “[...] to the Chief Chamberlain Anna Katharina von Harling, née. von Offeln, and her husband Christian Friedrich von Harling, privy councilor and head stable master, in Hanover ”, have been obtained from extensive written correspondence (see literature).

Also around 1662, von Harling was initially appointed stable master of his sovereign . Around a decade later he was raised to the rank of Drost von Iburg in 1672 . About four years later he took part in the Dutch War in 1676 . In 1680 he was promoted to head stable master.

Christian Friedrich von Harling (far right) carrying the tow of the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and later Elector Ernst August during the state funeral for Johann Friedrich , Prince of Calenberg , on April 20, 1680;
Copper engraving by Johann Georg Lange, called for by Leibniz

From 1684 Anna Katharina lived in the so-called "Harlingsche House" given to her by Ernst August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, at Calenberger Strasse 29/30 "[...] on the Neustadt " near Hanover.

1695 was appointed by Harling to the Privy Council.

The letter sent by the valet Christian Friedrich von Harling in 1700 to the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , which is kept in the archives of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Double tombstone (today epitaph ) with his wife Anna Catharina von Offen on the southern outer wall of the church tower of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in the Calenberger Neustadt of Hanover

In 1701 the couple bought a burial place in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . A few years after his wife, Christian Friedrich von Harling also died in the royal seat of Hanover. Due to the electoral privilege for the high-ranking court officials, he was buried within the church, as was his wife - and after them Leibniz too. The double tombstone of von Harling and von Offen can be found today - as an epitaph , as it were - with their coats of arms on the south wall of the church tower in Calenberger Neustadt.

literature

  • Liselotte von der Pfalz in her Harling letters. All letters from Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, to the Chief Chamberlain Anna Katharina von Harling, b. von Offeln, and her husband Christian Friedrich von Harling, privy councilor and head stable master, in Hanover; supplemented by a complete inventory of their previously known letters to various recipients (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in Speyer , vol. 102), edited, commented and introduced by Hannelore Helfer. With a glossary by Malte-Ludolf Babin, 2 volumes, Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7752-6126-5 and ISBN 3-7752-6126-5
  • Eduard Bodemann (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans. Letters to her former court master AK v. Harling, b. v. Uffels, and their consorts, go. Rath Fr. Harling zu Hannover (in Gothic script ), reprint of the Hannover edition; Leipzig; Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung from 1895, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2004, ISBN 3-487-12055-0
  • Sigrun Pas (ed.), Hannelore Helfer: Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans and her relationship with Anna Katharina and Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Harling . In: Liselotte von der Pfalz: Madame at the court of the Sun King , accompanying document to the exhibition of the city of Heidelberg for the 800th anniversary from September 21, 1996 to January 26, 1997 in Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg, 1996
  • Hannelore Helfer: “One must always do what is reasonable - like it or not - and let God rule in the rest.” Liselotte von der Pfalz and her letters . In: Huguenots , Ed .: Deutsche Huguenot Society, Bad Karlshafen, 2009, ISSN 0012-0294
  • Mareike Böth: Narrative ways of the self. Body practices in Liselotte's letters from the Palatinate (1652–1722) (= self-testimony of the modern age , vol. 24), at the same time dissertation 2012 at the University of Kassel , Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22459-2 and ISBN 3-412-22459-6 , passim ; mostly online via Google books

Web links

Commons : Christian Friedrich von Harling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the joint authority file of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Kempe (responsible): Harling, Christian Friedrich von (July 4, 1724) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition , last accessed on June 30, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d Annette v. Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 6, especially p. 14
  4. ↑ a b c d e Harling, Christian Friedrich from in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in processing on November 12, 2008, last accessed on June 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Harling, Anna Katharina von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library, edited on September 12, 2008, last accessed on June 30, 2016
  6. ↑ Georg Ruppelt (responsible): Incorporation of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's correspondence in the register of UNESCO World Heritage Sites / handover of documents to the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library on July 1, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballhof in Hanover , illustrated and annotated commemorative publication; downloadable ( memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dokumente.leibnizcentral.de
personal data
SURNAME Harling, Christian Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harling, Friedrich Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, Drost von Iburg, valet, court cavalier, electoral Hanoverian chief stable master and privy councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Neuenfelde near Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1724
Place of death Hanover