Franz Albert von Friedrich

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Franz Albert Friedrich , from 1833: von Friedrich , (born February 18, 1775 in Mannheim , † April 19, 1843 in Karlsruhe ) was a Baden diplomat , envoy and author .

Life

Franz Albert Friedrich studied law at the University of Heidelberg . In the summer semester of 1796 he also enrolled for experimental physics and in the winter semester of 1796 for astronomy , physical geography , meteorology and geogony to follow the physicist, mathematician and enlightenment engineer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . In 1797 he was a correspondent for the Royal Historical Institute in Göttingen and a theater poet , especially for the Mannheim court theater.

In 1796 he was appointed a secret councilor of justice . In 1800 he was appointed archivist of the Electoral Palatinate and in 1803 as a councilor in Mannheim. In 1809 he became Legation Councilor , from 1815 Secret Legation Councilor, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1817 he became a secret trainee and in 1818 the Grand Ducal Privy Council of Baden, 2nd class, and ministerial resident . He was from 1818 to 1821 as a successor to Joseph Albrecht of Ittners extraordinary Baden Envoy to the Diet Switzerland and 1821-1833 Plenipotentiary Minister at the royal Württemberg court. In 1834 he was appointed envoy in Paris and in 1835 as envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main. In 1838 he retired.

On April 18, 1833, Grand Duke Leopold von Baden was appointed to the hereditary nobility of the Grand Ducal Baden.

He was the author of the work "History of the Heidelberg Library Tackled to Rome".

Franz Albert von Friedrich was a Protestant and the son of the Mannheim court cellar master . His first marriage was to Josepha Kirn († 1831) and his second marriage to Frederike Wippermann. He had two children.

Honors (selection)

literature

  • '' South German noble heroes, or history and genealogy of the princely, count, baronial and hereditary houses residing in or connected with the southern German states '', 1844, p. 252

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , Wallstein Verlag 2006, p. 224
  2. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Walter de Gruyter 2001, p. 24
  3. ↑ a b Orders, decorations and certificates of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Numismatischer Verlag Fritz Rudolf Künker, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Franz Albert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, envoy and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1843
Place of death Karlsruhe