Franz Joseph von Stengel

Family coat of arms on the epitaph

Epitaph in Mannheim, St. Sebastian

Franz Joseph Anton Stengel , from 1740 von Stengel , (* February 5, 1683 in Hechingen , † December 28, 1759 in Mannheim ) was an electoral Palatinate privy councilor and founder of the Palatinate-Bavarian noble family von Stengel .

Live and act

He came from the county of Hohenzollern-Hechingen , where his father Paul Stengel died in 1725 as senior bailiff and princely Hohenzollern chancellor.

Franz Joseph Stengel joined the Electoral Palatinate state services, where he advanced to the office of director and privy councilor. With a diploma from September 26, 1740, issued in Schwetzingen , Elector Karl III raised it . Philip in the hereditary nobility. This made Franz Joseph von Stengel the founder of the widely ramified Palatinate-Bavarian noble family of the same name.

He was married to Maria Anna Dorothea, born in Wetzlar . Flender (1689–1758), daughter of the Nassau and Electorate of Trier Wetzlar town schultheißen or mayor Johann Heinrich Flender and his wife Claudina Elisabeth Klinke. They had four children. Her two sons Paul Heinrich Joseph Xaver von Stengel (1717–1754), Electoral Palatinate Landschreiber in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Johann Georg von Stengel (1721–1798) privy councilor and director of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences , continued the family. The former established the untitled, the latter the baronial line.

When Franz Joseph von Stengel died in 1759, he was buried in the Mannheim parish church of St. Sebastian . His wife and son Paul Heinrich Joseph Xaver († 1754) were already resting there. Together they received an artful marble epitaph, made and signed by Franz Conrad Linck (1730–1793). On it is u. a. the grandson, General Heinrich Christian Michael von Stengel (1744–1796), listed as the founder. According to the epitaph inscription, Franz Joseph von Stengel was also a knight and vice-chancellor of the Order of St. Hubert .

literature

Jakob Baroggio: The history of Mannheim from its creation to 1861 , Mannheim 1861, p. 499, ( digitized version )
Hans Huth, Eugen Reinhard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Stadtkreis Mannheim , Volume 1, P. 512, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1982; (Detail scan)
Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Stuttgart, 1845, 2nd section, 1st volume, p. 310; ( Digitized version )

Web links

Data page in the German biography
FRANZ JOSEPH Anton von Stengel in Digital Pages of the Martius Family
Collection of letters from Franz Joseph von Stengels to the Bavarian legation

Individual evidence

^ Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel , a Bavarian statesman , Munich, 1866, p. 4; (Scan of the family origin)
↑ Stephan von Stengel : Memoirs , Palatium Verlag, 1993, p. 136, ISBN 3920671066 ; (Detail scan)
^ Helmut Tenner: Mannheim art collector and art dealer up to the middle of the nineteenth century , Buch- und Kunstantiquariat Helmut Tenner, Mannheim, 1966, p. 28; (Detail scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Stengel, Franz Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stengel, Franz Joseph Anton von (full name); Stengel, Franz Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Electoral Palatinate privy councilor and office director
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hechingen
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 1759
Place of death	Mannheim

[1] Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel , a Bavarian statesman , Munich, 1866, p. 4; (Scan of the family origin)

[2] Stephan von Stengel : Memoirs , Palatium Verlag, 1993, p. 136, ISBN 3920671066 ; (Detail scan)

[3] Helmut Tenner: Mannheim art collector and art dealer up to the middle of the nineteenth century , Buch- und Kunstantiquariat Helmut Tenner, Mannheim, 1966, p. 28; (Detail scan)