Claus von Reventlow

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Count Claus Reventlow, portrait by Carl Gustaf Pilo

Claus Graf Reventlow , actually Nicolaus Graf Reventlow , also Claudius Reventlow (born December 3, 1693 in Copenhagen ; † May 10, 1758 ibid) was a Danish-German lawyer, president of the Højesteret and canon in Lübeck .

Life

Claus von Reventlow (No. 264 of the gender census ) came from the Schleswig-Holstein Equites Originarii family Reventlow . He was a son of Friedrich von Reventlow (1649–1728) on Neudorf from his second marriage to Anna Hedwig, geb. of torments († 1717). On March 5, 1701, at the age of seven, he received a canon priest at Lübeck Cathedral .

He studied law at various German universities, first from January 1709 at the University of Kiel , and in 1711 at the University of Halle . In 1715/16 he went on a grand tour to the Netherlands, England and France.

Returned to Denmark, he became a chamberlain at the Danish court in 1721/22 with Queen Anna Sophie . In 1727 he was appointed chamberlain . From 1728 to 1730 he worked as a bailiff in Skanderborg Amt and Åkær (Viborg Kommune) Amt. In 1730 he was appointed bailiff for the Aalborg and Ålborg Monastery and the Åstrup Sejlstrup Børglum Office in North Jutland .

In 1736 he joined the Danish highest court Højesteret as an assessor as well as the Hofretten (court court). In 1748 he was appointed President of the Højesteret.

He was bitter of the noble monastery Itzehoe and since 1736 also provost of the St. Johannis monastery before Schleswig .

As a canon in Lübeck, Claus von Reventlow was commissioned by King Friedrich V in 1756 to be the driving force behind the election of his second son, Prince Friedrich of Denmark (1753-1805), who was only three years old at the time, as coadjutor of the Principality of Lübeck - against the resistance of the Prince-Bishop Friedrich August . The successful election became part of Denmark's bargaining chip on the Gottorf issue and was reversed in 1773 by the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo .

Reventlow owned several estates. In 1735 he acquired Astrup ( Skive Kommune ), which he sold again in 1749, as well as Eskjær and the Skivehus in Skive , which he sold again in 1750. In 1753 he acquired the Osterrade and Kluvensiek estates, today both districts of Bovenau and Cay von Brockdorff .

He was married twice, first since November 7, 1727 with Christiane Barbara, b. Rantzau (* 1683; † February 16, 1747), a daughter of General Johan Rantzau (1650–1708) and his second wife Sophia Amalia, b. Friis (1651–1696) and widow of Colonel Verner Parsberg on Eskjær († 1719). In his second marriage on November 6, 1748 , he married Charlotte Dorothea, b. von Plessen (* May 25, 1724 - † May 25, 1771), daughter of Christian Ludwig Scheel von Plessen and nun of the Ordre de l'union parfaite . This made him a brother-in-law of Louise von Plessen . The couple had one child, Christian [e] von Reventlow (* April 3, † April 4, 1753).

Burial chapel

Reventlow Chapel (2016)

On January 19, 1736, Claus Reventlow had acquired a side chapel of the Lübeck Katharinenkirche from Segeberg bailiff Hans Rantzau (approx. 1685–1744), which his father Friedrich von Reventlow had owned since 1708. The motive for the acquisition in the Katharinenkirche (and not in the cathedral or in a Copenhagen church) remains unclear. His first wife Christiane Barbara was buried here in 1747. After his death, Claus Reventlow's body was transferred by ship to Lübeck, where he arrived on July 18 and was brought to St. Catherine's Church, with the cathedral ringing for two hours. The redesign of the chapel in the Rococo style with stucco work and a new wrought iron grille dragged on until 1759. A monumental marble sarcophagus, made by the Copenhagen wood sculptor Simon Carl Stanley , was installed in the chapel . On the upper surface it bears a crucifix and a scroll with the names and titles of the deceased. The side decorations are made up of 32 ancestral coats of arms and cartouches with names. Four life-size marble statues flank the sarcophagus at the corners. They are female figures who embody the three theological virtues of faith, love, hope and the virtue of justice ( Justitia ). The copper sarcophagus of his second wife Charlotte Dorothea, who suddenly died in 1771 on Osterrade, was later placed in front of the marble sarcophagus facing the nave. At an unknown point in the 20th century, it was removed.

Awards

estate

Some personal papers such as the wills of the spouses as well as documents and reports from Reventlows on the coadjutor election, including a list of the payments made, can be found in the Danish Imperial Archives.

literature

  • Louis Bobé : Claus Reventlow , in: CF Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Copenhagen: Gyldendal 1887–1905.
  • Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1893 , p. 379 f.
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Nöhring, Lübeck 1928. (Facsimile reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 ), p. 71f

Web links

Commons : Claus Reventlow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig zu Reventlow: The sex of Reventlow , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 22 (1892), pp. 1–158
  2. ^ Wolfgang Prange : Directory of the Canon. In: Ders .: 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. 403 no.316
  3. ^ Franz Gundlach : The album of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665-1865 full text , p. 62
  4. ^ Matriculation of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: (1690-1730). (Works from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle ad Saale 2) ISSN  0438-4415 Halle: University and State Library, 1960, p. 315
  5. ^ Vello Helk: Dansk-norske studierejser: Matrikel over studerende i udlandet. (Odense University Studies in History and Social Sciences) Odense: Universitetsforlag 1991 ISBN 9788774928232 , p. 150
  6. ↑ After BuK IV (Lit.), p 72 it was a son Christian ; according to Danmarks Adels Aarbog (lit.) a daughter Christiane .
  7. ^ S2, Chapel of the Westfal family , donated by Councilor Hermann Westphal , see Antje Grewolls: The chapels of the north German churches in the Middle Ages: Architecture and function. Ludwig, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-9805480-3-1 , p. 218
  8. ↑ According to BuK IV (Lit.), p. 72
  9. ↑ Figure
  10. ↑ 253rd award, JHF Berlien: The Elephant Order and its knights . Copenhagen 1846 ( digitized ). , P. 98
  11. ↑ Entry in the catalog
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Claus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Nicolaus von (real name); Reventlow, Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-German lawyer, president of the Højesteret and canon in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1758
Place of death Copenhagen