Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg

Franz Graf von Klebelsberg (1835)

Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg (Franz Graf von Klebelsberg Freiherr zu Thumburg) (* July 24, 1774 in Trziblitz ; †  December 28, 1857 there ) was a Bohemian nobleman, imperial official , governor of Lower Austria and president of the Vienna Court Chamber . He was one of the founders of the Prague Conservatory and the National Museum in Prague .

Life

Career

Franz Graf Klebelsberg became treasurer in 1798 and councilor in 1800 in Bohemia. From 1811 he worked as director of the poor bread and wood recycling campaign in Prague and from 1813 as general director of the war hospitals in Bohemia. Graf Klebelsberg became Vice President of the Moravian - Silesian Gubernium in 1825 , and of the Bohemian Gubernium in 1827 and a real secret council. In 1828 he was appointed governor (governor) of Lower Austria . After all, he was President of the Court Chamber from 1830 to 1834.

Patrons of the arts and collectors

Together with his cousins Kaspar Maria Graf von Sternberg and Franz Joseph Graf von Sternberg , he co-founded the National Museum in Prague. And his commitment also applied to the Prague Conservatory and its establishment.

Klebelsberg owned an important private collection of coins, medals and copperplate engravings. He also owned a valuable library.

Wife Amalie and her daughters

Amalie Countess von Klebelsberg, née von Brösigke, painting by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1803)

Franz Klebelsberg zu Thumburg married Amelie von Broesigke (1788–1868), widowed von Levetzow , in 1843 , who met Goethe in 1822 and 1823 in Marienbad in the family of Count Klebelsberg.

Amalie had two daughters from her first, divorced marriage with the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court marshal Otto von Levetzow :

• The older, Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), induced Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to write his poem “Marienbader Elegy” in 1823 . Ulrike remained unmarried.
• The younger, Amélie von Levetzow (1805–1831), married the later Prussian Major General Leopold von Rauch in 1827 .

Amalie's second marriage to Friedrich Carl Ulrich von Levetzow, a cousin of her first husband, who died as a Prussian officer in the Battle of Waterloo , gave birth to her third daughter:

• Bertha von Levetzow (1808–1839), who was married to Johann Nepomuk Freiherr Mladota von Solopisk .

Trziblitz / Třebívlice

Klebelsberg owned the Trziblitz estate near Aussig . After his death, Trziblitz inherited his stepdaughter Ulrike von Levetzow, from whom her nephew, the Austro-Hungarian Colonel Adalbert von Rauch , inherited it . Adalbert von Rauch sold the estate to the city of Brüx in 1901 .

Klebelsberg's stepdaughter Bertha Freifrau Mladota von Solopisk bought the Netluk estate in the vicinity of Trziblitz in order to be able to live in close proximity to her mother and sister Ulrike.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Klebelsberg, Franz Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 30 ( digitized version ).
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 3, 1964, p. 373.

Web links

Commons : Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Today corresponds to the Deputy Governor.