Friedrich August von Rudloff

Friedrich August Rudloff , since 1817: von Rudloff (born February 6, 1751 in Rostock , † May 14, 1822 in Schwerin ) was a German administrative lawyer and historian .

Life

family

Friedrich August Rudloff was the son of the then Mecklenburg State syndicus Ernst August Rudloff (1712–1775) and his wife Ilsabe, born. Prehn († November 23, 1788), the daughter of a Rostock councilor. The later Hanoverian Secret Cabinet Councilor Wilhelm August Rudloff was his older brother, making Friedrich August the uncle of the later Hanoverian General Post Director Wilhelm August von Rudloff .

Career

Friedrich August Rudloff studied law from 1768, first at the University of Leipzig and from April 1769 at the University of Bützow . Until 1774 he worked in his father's library on Gut Moïsall with elaborations from his handwritten collections from Johann Friedrich Chemnitz ' Chronicon for the Bützow professors Adolf Friedrich Trendelenburg and Wilhelm August Rudloff (his brother). These were supposed to continue the work of Chemnitz for Duke Friedrich , but this never came about. But Rudloff himself came up with the plan for a documented history of Mecklenburg. In 1774 he entered the state service in Mecklenburg, became a tax councilor in Güstrow and in 1776 received the title of councilor . In the meantime his father had died in 1775. The estate Moïsall with Moorhagen passed on to him in the division of the estate, as did his father's handwritten collections on Mecklenburg history.

In 1776 he was appointed to the Secret Council and Government College in Schwerin and was given the title of Secret Legation Secretary . In the same year he earned a lasting merit through the " Herzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinische Staatskalender " created by him , which he continuously improved and developed into an indispensable reference work. Editing later passed from him to his sister's son, Hofrat Peter Friedrich Rudolf Faull , and after his death to the grand ducal statistical office.

In 1790 he became the first secret secretary with the title of Legation Councilor . 1796 and 1797 he took over as Minister of Friedrich Franz I. Herzog at Hildesheim Congress part. In 1799 he became a real government councilor and in the following years he gave Mecklenburg territorial gains from the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss through historically substantiated claims to church property . In the French period he was only a little prominent. From 1802 he was also a landlord on Bössow (today part of Warnow (near Grevesmühlen) ). In 1813 he was involved in the reorganization of the state in Rostock, the University of Rostock awarded him an honorary doctorate in law on this occasion .

On September 1, 1817, Emperor Franz elevated him to hereditary nobility. He had a son, the Prussian major general Karl Gustav von Rudloff (1782–1872).

plant

In addition to the state calendar, Rudloff emerged as the author of a documented , free representation of the history of Mecklenburg from the trinkets of inventions and learned gimmicks and fables, apart from the takeover of the Slavic "kings" . The first part of the “Pragmatic Handbook of Mecklenburg History” appeared in 1780; In 1785 the 2nd part, 1st and 2nd division followed, and in 1786, the 3rd and 4th division. These represented the story up to 1508. A second edition of the first volume appeared in 1795 and in the same year of the third part, which was to extend to 1755, the first volume up to 1572. Here the work initially came to a standstill. In 1788 Rudloff published the most important documents piece by piece in the monthly from and for Mecklenburg . The publisher gave the already published 34 numbers with a number of new ones (up to 1305) and with a preceding "History of the Counts of Danneberg in Mecklenburg" as Codex diplomaticus Historiae Magapolitanae Fascic. I or delivery of documents for knowledge of the Mecklenburg prehistoric times , 1st issue 1789 out. With the second issue, which appeared in 1790 and contained documents up to 1329, the company turned out to be unprofitable.

Later, a change of ownership of the publisher gave him the opportunity to work through the period from 1503 to 1572 again, to add the years 1572–1621 to the Güstrow division and to add them as the 3rd part, 1st and 2nd volume , but with the new main title Modern History von Mecklenburg to have the 1st and 2nd volumes published in 1821 and 1822.

In 1810 he published the Rudloff family tree in Schwerin , which he was able to trace back to three centuries.

Works

• The former relationship between the Duchy of Mecklenburg and the Diocese of Schwerin, corrected from documents and history books: On the occasion of an imminent incorporation of the knighthood belonging to the latter into the Mecklenburgische. Schwerin: Bear jump 1774
• On the admissibility or inadmissibility of sovereign servants at estates gatherings: an attempt. Schwerin: Bear jump 1774
• Pragmatic Handbook of Mecklenburg History.

Digitized from Volume 1 (1780); Copy from the Bavarian State Library

Digitized volume 2, 1/2 (1785); Copy from the Bavarian State Library

Digitized from volume 2, 3/4 (1786); Copy from the Bavarian State Library

• Historical overview of the events of the Warnemünde customs so far. Sl, [1787]
• Codex diplomaticus historiae Megapolitanae medii aevi.

Digitized from Volume 1 (1789); Copy from the Bavarian State Library

Digitized (faulty) ; Copy from the Bavarian State Library

• Pro-memoria concerning the claims of the ducal house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to two canonicates of the cathedral monastery in Strasbourg. Sl [1791]
• The Mecklenburg Empire contingent against France: in a series of public negotiations, with comments. Schwerin 1793
• Herzoglich Mecklenburg Schwerinisches Promemoria for refusal of the chamber targets for the city of Wismar. Schwerin 1794
• The right of presentation for parish occupations in the Principality of Schwerin. A contribution to Mecklenburg spiritual law. Schwerin: Bear jump 1801

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• Attempt of a correct interpretation and application of the main conclusion of the Extraordinary Reich Deputation in Regensburg. Schwerin 1804
• Modern history of Mecklenburg. 2 volumes. Rostock: Stiller 1821/22

Digitized version of volume 2; Copy from the Bavarian State Library

literature

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Rudloff, Friedrich August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 472 f.

Web links

• Literature about Friedrich August von Rudloff in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Rudloff, Ernst August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 470-472.
2. ^ Otto Mejer:  Rudloff, Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 473-477.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Rudloff, (2) Wilhelm August von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 527f.
4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
5. ↑ According to Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie ² Volume 8 (2207), p. 593f; the statement in the ADB and with Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775) , p. 223, the sex had not been continued and the new nobility had already expired with the death of Friedrich August, is therefore incorrect.
6. ↑ ADB