Christoph von Keller

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Ludwig Christoph Graf von Keller

Dorotheus Ludwig Christoph Freiherr von Keller , from 1789 Count von Keller , (born February 19, 1757 in Stedten an der Gera ; † November 22, 1827 there ) was a German politician.

Life

Keller was the son of the Saxon-Gotha Minister Freiherr Christoph Dietrich von Kellers . The von Keller family came from the Duchy of Württemberg . After his school days - mostly taught by private tutors - Keller studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Strasbourg .

Immediately after successfully completing his studies, Keller was appointed Prussian Legation Councilor in 1777 . As such, he worked 1779–85 as envoy to the Swedish court in Stockholm , 1786–89 to the Russian court in Saint Petersburg . A scene with Vice Chancellor Count Iwan Ostermann (1725–1811) and a - real or alleged - insult to Empress Katharina ultimately led to his recall from Russia at the request of Russia.

King Friedrich Wilhelm II. Compensated him in 1789 by being awarded the Prussian count status and by being appointed envoy in the Hague , where Keller worked from 1790 to 1795. In January 1795 expelled from there by the penetration of the French, he stayed in Holstein and on his estate in Stedten near Erfurt.

Appointed envoy to the Austrian imperial court in Vienna in April 1797 , he remained in this position until financial difficulties in 1805 prompted him to ask for his departure, whom King Friedrich Wilhelm III gave him . granted on May 28, 1805.

In 1805 he initially withdrew to his estate in Stedten and, because of other possessions, was active in the assembly of estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia after 1807 .

Von Keller had known the Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg since he was a boy , who hired him after he left Prussian service. On Dalberg's behalf, Keller was involved in organizing the Erfurt Princely Congress and was also present later. In 1811, Keller acted as a special ambassador for Dalberg in Paris, who had meanwhile mutated into the Grand Duke of Frankfurt by Napoleon's grace . After the end of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Keller entered the service of the Elector of Hesse and represented Hesse-Darmstadt at the Congress of Vienna . In 1815, the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt accepted Keller as a member, and Keller replaced Baron Karl Friedrich von Dacheröden as its president .

After the wars of freedom had ended , Keller returned to Prussian service and became the first president of the Erfurt administrative district in 1816 , but resigned in 1817. He still remained the Prussian envoy to the Thuringian courts.

family

Keller was married since 1790 to Amalie (1771-1853), a daughter of Count Christian Ludwig Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, a sister of the Russian Field Marshal Prince Wittgenstein . Gustav von Keller was a son of the couple.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harm Klueting: Ostermann, Andrej Ivanovič Graf von , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1998), pp. 619–620 ( online version )
  2. ^ A b c d article " Keller, Dorotheus Ludwig Christoph Graf von " by Paul Bailleu in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 15 (1882), p. 563, digital full-text edition in Wikisource (version of October 12, 2014, 05:08 UTC)
  3. ^ Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Christian Ludwig Casimir Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of March 12, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).