Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus von Voss

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Beginning of the line of the Counts of Voss Buch

Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus von Voss , actually Hieronymus von Voss , often referred to in the literature as Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voss (born November 13, 1724 - October 3, 1784 ) was the Prussian envoy to the Danish court in Copenhagen and Warsaw , chief steward , and secret councilor and provost of the monastery at Havelberg .

Life

Origin and family

Son Otto (Carl Friedrich) von Voss
Daughter Julie Amalie Elisabeth von Voss, Countess Ingenheim, around 1785

(Friedrich Christoph) Hieronymus von Voss came in 1724 as the eldest son of Friedrich Ernst von Voss (* November 5, 1700 - January 1, 1739) and Helena Isabel, born. von Jasmund (born December 14, 1703; † October 11, 1775). In 1726 his brother Johann Ernst (* January 25, 1726 - May 26, 1793) was born in Groß Gievitz . There is no life data in the family tree for another brother Ludwig August.

Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus von Voss married Amaliea Ottilie, born on February 15, 1754. von Viereck (born December 17, 1736; † October 30, 1767 in Berlin ), daughter of the royal Prussian real secret budget and war council, later Minister Adam Otto (II.) von Viereck (1684–1758).

The marriage resulted in 4 children. Otto (Carl Friedrich) was born on June 8, 1755, Albrecht Leopold was royal Prussian major, inspection adjutant to General von Kalkreuth and Rittmeister (* February 22, 1763; † May 31, 1793 during the siege of Mainz ) and through Ferdinand Georg Wilhelm Ernst is only known that he was a colonel . His daughter Julie Amalie Elisabeth was born on July 4, 1766. He founded the book line in the family tree of his Mecklenburg noble family . His son Otto was musically inclined, shortly after his 7th birthday he tried a little aria as a congratulation on his 38th birthday on November 13th 1762 for his father. " God hear your wishes, God bless your supplications, let papachas celebrate this festival for many years to come ". Otto received his first training from his father at home. After which he was able to start studying law in Frankfurt an der Oder and in Göttingen .

Career

With his brother, he studied law in Halle on 16 October 1741 in Leipzig on 22 October 1743. Due to the influence of her aunt Johanna Maria Augusta of Jasmund (short of General von Pannewitz called because it with the Prussian Major General Wolf Adolf von Pannewitz married war) he and his brother found their way into the Prussian monarchy when they were appointed secret councilors in 1744. In June 1748 Friedrich changed from the judiciary to the Office for Foreign Affairs. Until he left because of illness in July 1752, he was envoy at the Danish court and in Warsaw. Around 1765 Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus was general director of the Kur- und Neumärkische Land fire society , first deputy of the Kurmärkischen landscape, as well as the first director of the royal general widows catering establishment . Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus was the hereditary lord of the goods Buch , Birkholz , Karow , Flothow , Klein Helle , Groß Gievitz , Klein Gievitz and Trollenhagen . According to the king's stipulations of April 22nd, 1766, he was busy since February 1767 on his estate in Buch with the progressive abolition and dispute of meanness, which he successfully completed.

On July 20, 1772, a devastating lightning strike ( ball lightning ) hit the Buch church and seriously damaged it. A local naturalist Schumann, son of the former court master, told him about this incident . Warned about this natural event, we owe Voss, as the patron of the church, the introduction of lightning rods in the Kurmark in 1778 . He commissioned Oberconsistorial- und Oberbaurath Johann Esaias Silberschlag to carry them out on the Schlosskirche Buch and other buildings on his estate.


Individual evidence

  1. New genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events which happened at the European courts, in which at the same time many class persons life descriptions occur Der Theil 109 Leipzig 1759, Volume 10 p. 153
  2. ^ Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage 1998 , p. 157.
  3. Ludwig Schreck: Gallery of memorable statesmen of the 18th and 19th centuries , 1840, p. 318.
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1057 ( limited preview in the Google book search - in the article about his son Otto Carl Friedrich von Voss).
  5. Karl Hopf : Historical-genealogical atlas since the birth of Christ , Volume 1, Edition 2, p. 89 Family table IV
  6. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture , 1788, last paragraph p. 160.
  7. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture , 1788, p. 161.
  8. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1055 ( limited preview in the Google book search - in the article about his brother Ernst Johann von Voss).
  9. ^ Prussian judicial proceedings in civil and criminal matters Cologne am Rhein, pp. 224–226.
  10. Johann Esaias Silberschlag: Geogeny or explanation of the Mosaic creation of the earth according to physical and mathematical principles , Part 1, 1780, p. 182, § 262.
  11. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic Encyklopädie, or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture , 1788, pp. 317–321.