Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel
Ernst Ludwig Christoph Freiherr von Spiegel zum Desenberg (born February 22, 1711 in Gießen , † May 22, 1785 in Wetzlar ) was the owner of the manor , canon of Halberstadt and from 1753 ruling cathedral dean in the Prussian principality of Halberstadt .
He had a close friendship with Gleim , who ran the business for him as cathedral secretary. In 1771 he laid out the Spiegelsberge landscape park near Halberstadt, founded the first Prussian teacher training college in 1778, and in 1785 took part in the founding of the Halberstadt Literary Society . He was also active as a poet and was close to the Weimar Classicist group of poets .
Life
He was a son of the Hesse-Kassel, later Russian officer Carl Ludwig von Spiegel zum Desenberg from the Westphalian noble family Spiegel and the Eberhardine Dorothea von Neipperg . He was enrolled at the University of Giessen at the age of 11 . Until 1730 he was in the Hessian-Kassel military service, most recently as a cornet .
He became Protestant canon in Halberstadt in 1731 , cathedral scholaster in 1746 and cathedral dean in 1753 . Four Catholics were among the 14 canons who elected him cathedral dean. In this function he led the government of the Principality of Halberstadt for Frederick the Great until his death . From 1747 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was the cathedral secretary, to whom Spiegel largely left the business; a close friendship developed from the collaboration. In addition, he held the post of provost of the two Halberstadt collegiate monasteries St. Peter and Paul and Our Lady .
In 1749 he married Ehrengard Melusine Johanna Spiegel von Peckelsheim (* 1728), a distant relative and heir to Seggerde . In 1768 he took over the property she had left behind. In Castle Seggerde their children were born, of which only the son of Werner Adolf Heinrich von Spiegel survived the parents.
In 1754, while Spiegel was present in Berlin, Friedrich II founded a separate order for the Halberstadt canons, the Order of St. Stephen. In 1757 Spiegel was present at the stage during the Battle of Kolin . Spiegel did not have a significant salary, but was able to fall back on the funds of the prince-bishop's wine domains, which he used primarily for charitable purposes, including the promotion of literature. In 1778 he founded the first Prussian teachers' college in Halberstadt.
In 1761 he acquired the bare Kattfußberge range of hills in the northern Harz foreland , south of Halberstadt. He had them designed and made the Spiegelsberge landscape park available to the public in 1771. From 1780 he built the Spiegelsberge hunting lodge there as a country residence, and in 1782 he had the Spiegel'sche Kuria built on Domplatz as his residence in Halberstadt. In August 1783, Gleim arranged for Spiegel to hold a party for Duchess Anna Amalia, who was traveling through, on the Spiegelsberg, to which Wieland brought her the invitation, and a second in September on the return journey, at which Goethe and the Brunswick court were present.
He lived through the founding of the Halberstadt Literary Society at the beginning of 1785 and died shortly afterwards in May on a trip to Wetzlar. He was buried in the mausoleum he had built in 1783 in the Spiegelberg Mountains. His son had his body transferred to the family crypt in Seggerde in 1811.
The mirror house built in 1778 , a hunting lodge near Gernrode , is named after him.
The Spiegelsche Kuria on Domplatz Halberstadt, built in 1782, today the Municipal Museum
Spiegelsberge hunting lodge , built between 1780 and 1782
Mausoleum of Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel, Spiegelsberge
literature
- Heinrich Pröhle : Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 146-149.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ADB: Spiegel zum Desenberge, Ernst Ludwig Freiherr von
- ^ Sascha Winter: Gravestone and garden art around 1800. In: Grabkultur in Deutschland. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-02824-6 , p. 48.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spiegel, Ernst Ludwig Christoph von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manor owner and Canon of Halberstadt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1711 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1785 |
| Place of death | Wetzlar |