Franz Leopold of Metzburg

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Franz Leopold von Metzburg (born November 15, 1746 in Graz , † October 6, 1789 in Jassy ) was an Austrian diplomat .

family

Franz Leopold, Baron von Metzburg , came from a family in Upper Austria that had settled in Styria . He was a son of the Styrian Land Law Secretary Christoph Augustin Freiherrn von Metzburg from his marriage to Maria Katharina von Hitzelberg.

His son Johann Nepomuk von Metzburg , from his marriage to Marie v. Raab, was also a civil servant. One brother was the Jesuit and mathematics professor Georg Ignaz von Metzburg , another brother Gottfried von Metzburg was also a Jesuit. His sister Barbara (1740–1786) was the mother of Generals Max and Johann von Baumgarten (older spelling: Paumgartten) and the grandmother of General Franz Xaver von Paumgartten .

Life

He entered the diplomatic service. First, at the legation in Dresden worked, he was in 1771 as legation secretary of Naples added and in 1774 as chargé to Copenhagen . Then he returned to the court of Electoral Saxony in Dresden, where he stayed for seven years. He then became the imperial administrator of the Consulate in Jassy , where he died at the age of 43.

He translated the work Meditazioni su vari punti di felicità pubblica e privata (Copenhagen, C. Philibert, 1775) by the learned Camaldolese Isidoro Bianchi , who had come to Copenhagen as secretary of the Neapolitan envoy, from Italian: reflections on various subjects of general and individual bliss. (Copenhagen 1775, 8 °.), Which was dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa .

Works

  • Reflections on various objects of general and individual bliss. Copenhagen, 1775

literature

  • Kreuter, Peter Mario: Franz Leopold von Metzburg and Nicolae Mavrogheni. Snapshots of a difficult relationship between two diplomatic worlds. In: Encounters in Europe's Southeast. The Habsburg Empire and the Orthodox World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Edited by Harald Heppner and Eva Posch. Bochum, 2012, pp. 75-91.
  • Kreuter, Peter Mario: How do you talk to the prince, how do you talk about the country? : Diplomats from Austria and France in the Danube Principalities between 1782 and 1807. In: Innsbrucker historical studies, 29 (2013), pp. 239-256.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Metzburg, Franz Leopold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 67 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digitized at Google Books

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personal data
SURNAME Metzburg, Franz Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1789
Place of death Iassy