Christian of Hessen-Darmstadt

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Christian of Hessen-Darmstadt

Christian von Hessen-Darmstadt (born November 25, 1763 in Buchsweiler , † April 17, 1830 in Darmstadt ) was a prince and landgrave from the noble house of Hessen-Darmstadt and a Dutch general .

Life

Christian was the youngest son of the ruling Landgrave Ludwig IX. von Hessen-Darmstadt (1719–1790) and his wife Henriette Karoline (1721–1774), daughter of the Count Palatine and Duke Christian III. from Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld . He was a brother of Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hesse and the Rhine .

Christian von Hessen-Darmstadt as a young man

At the beginning of 1775, at the age of eleven, Prince Christian was sent to Strasbourg to study with his brother Friedrich, who was five years older than him, where he remained under the supervision of a court master until July 1782. He then chose a military career in the service of the Netherlands . As lieutenant general, he fought in the First Coalition War from 1793 to 1794 for William V of Orange against the French and was seriously wounded on September 12, 1793 in the Battle of Menin near the town of Wervik . After the defeat, he fled to England with the Dutch royal family in 1795 and later continued the war against France in Austrian service. From 1799 he lived in Darmstadt, where he is buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt.

Due to the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Prince Christian was a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1820 to 1830 .

Landgrave Christian was an enthusiastic Freemason and a Grand Master there.

Landgrave Christian von Hessen-Darmstadt was buried in the old cemetery of Darmstadt (grave site: I Mauer 133).

Web links

literature

  • Chr. W. Pope: Christian of Hessen. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Vol. 8, 1830, part 1. Bernh. Fr. Voigt, Ilmenau 1832, pp. 343-351 No. 145 ( online at Google Books ).
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 181.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Kollbach: Growing up at the farm. Enlightenment and princely education in Hesse and Baden. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 978-3-593-38884-7 , p. 165 with note 510.
  2. ^ Pope: Christian von Hessen (see literature), p. 346.
  3. ↑ See Christian von Hessen-Darmstadt at The Gotha Illuminati Research Base .
personal data
SURNAME Hessen-Darmstadt, Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landgrave from the House of Hessen-Darmstadt and Dutch general
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Bouxwiller (Bas-Rhin)
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1830
Place of death Darmstadt