Friedrich Carl Emil von der Lühe

Friedrich Carl Emil von der Lühe (born March 4, 1751 in Mecklenburg or Falster , † March 9, 1801 in Vienna ) was a German poet lawyer and botanist, Danish chamberlain and bailiff and imperial councilor in Lower Austria .

Life

Friedrich Carl Emil von der Lühe was the son of the Mecklenburg bailiff and chamberlain in the Danish service Gideon von der Lühe (1704–1755) and his wife Margrethe Hedwig born. von Lützow († 1768). According to the church register of Kirch Grambow , he was baptized on June 5, 1752 in the village church there.

After attending school, he studied law at the University of Göttingen , from 1770 at the University of Bützow and in 1772 at the University of Helmstedt . There he became a member of the Unanimacy Order (later the Unitist Order ) and was considered one of its leaders. In 1774 he gave the birthday speech for the father of the country, Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, as a representative of the Ducal German Society .

After graduating, he became the page of Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark and received the Danish nobility naturalization on June 25, 1777 as a royal Danish chamberlain . He became Danish Chamberlain in 1780 and Deputy of the Danish Commerzcollegium in 1782. In the course of the Danish government reshuffle on April 14, 1784, due to the takeover of power by Crown Prince Friedrich , later King Friedrich VI., Von der Lühe, who was in the wrong court party, was transferred to the office of Neumünster as bailiff. The previous Danish Minister of State, Ove Høegh-Guldberg , was also demoted to the position of “Amtmand”.

In 1788 he resigned from office for health reasons, moved to Austria and converted to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1789 he entered the service of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna , where he became a real councilor, treasurer in the domain affairs and government councilor in Lower Austria . Here he made particular efforts to grow fruit trees and set up a tree nursery in Kaiserebersdorf . At his suggestion, a section was created in the Belvedere Garden exclusively for the plants of the Austrian monarchy , which was under the direction of Nicolaus Thomas Host (1761–1834), but which was described as a little disordered as early as 1827 .

Von der Lühe worked as a poet lawyer and was interested in botany . Both interests came together in his hexameter hymns to Flora (1797) and Ceres (1799), which was highly praised as a model of descriptive poetry . Carl Ludwig Willdenow named the genus Lühea after him in 1801 ; also a type of chrysanthemum was named after him.

Fonts

To Flora and Ceres.

Vienna: Sword 1802 ( digitized version , Austrian National Library )

Vienna, Degen 1803 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Lühe, Karl Emil Freiherr von der . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 140 f. ( Digitized version ).
J. Bloch: vd Lühe, Frederik Carl Emil . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 501 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

^ Cuno von Rodde : Occasional foundlings from my genealogical collections. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 90 (1926), pp. 321–328 (pp. 327 ff.)
^ Bützow entry 1770 in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ W. Richter: The vandal connection to Rostock 1750-1824 , once and now volume 21 (1976), p. 15 ff. (P. 19)
↑ About the brilliance of some advantages, in which the most noble houses of Braunschweig and Mecklenburg vie with each other and before everyone: A speech on the birthday ... of the ruling Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the name of the Ducal German Society on August 1st, 1774. in the larger lecture hall held by Julius Carls University / by Friedrich Carl von der Lühe
^ Obituary in: Der Neue Teutsche Merkur . 1801, Vol. 2, pp. 50-54 , p. 51
^ Joseph August Schultes : Danube trips. Handbook for travelers on the Danube. Volume 2, Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta 1827, p. 466
↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire (lit.)
↑ Johann Baptist Rupprecht: About the Chrysanthemum indicum: Its history, determination and care. A botanical-practical experiment ; Printed by A. Strauss's sel.Widwe, 1833, p. 191.

personal data
SURNAME	Lühe, Friedrich Carl Emil from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet lawyer and botanist, Danish chamberlain and bailiff and imperial councilor in Lower Austria
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mecklenburg or Falster
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 1801
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Cuno von Rodde : Occasional foundlings from my genealogical collections. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 90 (1926), pp. 321–328 (pp. 327 ff.)

[2] Bützow entry 1770 in the Rostock matriculation portal

[3] W. Richter: The vandal connection to Rostock 1750-1824 , once and now volume 21 (1976), p. 15 ff. (P. 19)

[4] About the brilliance of some advantages, in which the most noble houses of Braunschweig and Mecklenburg vie with each other and before everyone: A speech on the birthday ... of the ruling Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the name of the Ducal German Society on August 1st, 1774. in the larger lecture hall held by Julius Carls University / by Friedrich Carl von der Lühe

[5] Obituary in: Der Neue Teutsche Merkur . 1801, Vol. 2, pp. 50-54 , p. 51

[6] Joseph August Schultes : Danube trips. Handbook for travelers on the Danube. Volume 2, Stuttgart and Tübingen: Cotta 1827, p. 466

[7] Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire (lit.)

[8] Johann Baptist Rupprecht: About the Chrysanthemum indicum: Its history, determination and care. A botanical-practical experiment ; Printed by A. Strauss's sel.Widwe, 1833, p. 191.