Franz Oliver from Jenison-Walworth
Painter: Franz Xaver Winterhalter , oil on canvas, 131.0 × 98.0 cm,
Neue Pinakothek , Munich
Count Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth (born June 9, 1787 in Heidelberg , † May 20, 1867 in Florence ) was a Bavarian politician and diplomat .
Life
Franz Oliver was born in 1787 as the son of the Darmstadt court marshal Franz von Jenison zu Walworth (1764-1824) and his wife Charlotte nee. Born Freiin von Cornet (1766–1864). His grandfather Franz Jenison had left England with his family and settled in Heidelberg in 1775.
Franz von Jenison-Walworth began his diplomatic career at the age of 23 as the Bavarian legation secretary in Berlin; In 1811 he was transferred to Saint Petersburg in the same capacity, to Paris in 1813 and to London in 1814. After the departure of John Casimir Haeffelin as Bavarian ambassador for Naples , he became in 1816 chargé Naples with Residentur in Rome and held this post until 1821. From there, he told the Bavarian government on the impressions which the proclamation of the Bavarian Constitutional Charter of 26 May 1818 on the Roman Curia. In 1824 he married Amalie Batthyány (1805–1866), daughter of Count József Sándor Batthyány (1777–1812) and Barbara Skerlecz von Lomnicza (1779–1834). In the same year he was appointed Bavarian ambassador to the Dutch court, but in the spring of 1826 he was recalled and put into temporary retirement.
From 1833 to 1847 Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth held the Bavarian legation posts at the most important courts in Europe : from 1833 to 1835 he was envoy in London ; In 1835 he was envoy to Paris , 1840 to Saint Petersburg and 1842 to Vienna . In 1847 he retired.
He spent the last part of his life in Italy . He died in Florence in 1867 at the age of 79.
Honors and memberships
- 1839: Honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1853: Title and rank of Councilor of State in extraordinary service
literature
- Jochen Rudschies: The Bavarian Envoys 1799-1871 , Commission for Bavarian State History , Munich, 1993
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann von Safe: General German Biography, Volume 13 . Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Munich 1881, p. 769 .
- ↑ 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 , Berlin 2001, p. 42-47 .
Web links
- Hermann von Safe : Jenison, Franz Olivier Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 769.
- Literature by and about Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth in the catalog of the German National Library
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| - | royal Bavarian envoy in Brussels 1824–1826 |
vacant |
| August by Cetto | royal Bavarian envoy in London 1833–1835 |
August by Cetto |
| Christian Hubert von Pfeffel | royal Bavarian envoy in Paris 1835–1839 |
Friedrich of Luxburg |
| Max von and zu Lerchenfeld on Köfering | royal Bavarian envoy in Saint Petersburg 1840–1842 |
Otto von Bray-Steinburg |
| Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld | royal Bavarian envoy in Vienna 1843–1847 |
Friedrich of Luxburg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jenison-Walworth, Franz Oliver von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1867 |
| Place of death | Florence |