Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke

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Count Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke (born March 27, 1745 in Nygaard, Damsholte Sogn on Møn , † January 22, 1824 in Altona ) was a Danish nobleman of German descent and the last cathedral dean of the Lübeck monastery .

Life

Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke came from the Danish branch of the originally Mecklenburg noble family von Moltke . He was the fourth son of Adam Gottlob von Moltke, who was raised to the Danish count status in 1750 . From May 1760 he studied law at the University of Leipzig . In 1761 he took private lessons from Christian Fürchtegott Gellert and became part of a small circle of students for whom Gellert held dinner parties in his brother's house. On his birthday in 1762 Gellert wrote him an occasional poem, a copy of which has been preserved in the library of the Sorø Akademi and in which he compares him with Hans Moritz von Brühl . After completing his studies in 1763, Moltke undertook a grand tour with his court master Johann Nicolaus Meinhard through Germany, Italy, France and Holland all the way back to Denmark. In December 1763 he met Johann Joachim Winckelmann in Rome and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock in Copenhagen .

As early as 1756 he was appointed court squire at the Danish court and in 1757 he was appointed chamberlain . Also in 1756 he had received a canon position at Lübeck Cathedral . Now in 1764 he became chamberlain and initially an auscultant at the German Chancellery . In 1771 he took up his residence as a canon in Lübeck and at the same time represented the royal Danish court at the Eutin court of the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck and Duke of Oldenburg from 1774 . Before 1794 he was dean of the bishopric. During the secularization of the Hochstift in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, he kept his privileges and income for life. In the turmoil of Lübeck's French era , he moved to the Danish town of Altona in 1812 and stayed there until the end of his life.

In 1778 he married Sophie Agnes, b. Countess von Luckner (born October 11, 1759 - March 19, 1847), daughter of the Marshal of France Nikolaus von Luckner . The couple had a daughter, Sophie (1783-1834), who married her cousin, the Mecklenburg hereditary land marshal Ferdinand von Maltzan , in Genin in 1800 .

Act

Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke, whose comprehensive education earned him the nickname “ lærde Moltke” ( the learned Moltke ), supported numerous poets and artists, including Matthias Claudius , who dedicated his dandies and stories to him in 1764 . Moltke's widow presented two letters of thanks from Winckelmann to Moltke for book gifts from his Grand Tour and for the acceptance of ten copies of Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi to the Christianeum in Altona. From Moltke's own poetic attempts, his neo-Latin poem in the form of a classic gravestone inscription on Klopstock gained wide circulation and was also translated into German.

Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke was a member of numerous learned societies. In 1772 he was one of the co-founders of the Lübeck Freemason Lodge Zum Füllhorn and was its master of the chair from 1794 to 1798, 1800 to 1803 and 1806 to 1812 . A federal hall for brothers and sisters donated by him in 1810 was not continued after his departure.

Awards

Works

  • Breve om overdaadighed and the skadelige followers i en stat '. Trykt hos Ludolph Henrich Lillie, Kiöbenhavn [1758]
    (German) Letters on waste and its harmful consequences in a state. Friedrich Christian Pelt, Copenhagen / Leipzig 1759.
  • Aram DMFG Klopstock statuit , pvblicas desiderii et pietatis notas incisit FL Moltke, Ven. Cap. Lubec. fata dum sivere, Decanus / Latentem lvce frvi cvravit C. Reinhard. Hammerich, Altonae 1815
    (German): Altar. The Manen FG Klopstock's established by Friedrich Ludwig Count von Moltke, cathedral dean of Lübeck, royal Danish secret conference council, grand cross of the Danebrog order, several learned societies members Translated from the Latin by Karl Reinhard. Altona 1818
    consecrated to Klopstock’s Manen: lapidary inscription; Latin, German. Göschen, Leipzig 1819
  • (under the pseudonym JM): Character of the Masons' Association. [Altona] 1822

literature

  • Detlev L. Lübker, Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers, from 1796 to 1828. Volume 1. Aue, Altona 1829, p. 376
  • John F. Reynolds: An unpublished occasional poem by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. In: Lessing Yearbook , XVII, 1985, pp. 147-152
  • Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 11 : Maar – Müllner . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1897, p. 420 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Helmut Riege: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Letters 1759–1766: Apparatus / Commentary . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 444, books.google.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the publication by Reynolds (Lit)
  2. ^ Franz Muncker:  Meinhard, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 232-234.
  3. ^ See Johannes Claussen: Letters to Count Ludwig Moltke 1761–1767 , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 29 (1899), pp. 335–342. The letters are still under the signature R 29/14 receive
  4. ↑ Ahasver von Brandt : Spirit and politics in the history of Lübeck. Eight chapters on the fundamentals of historic greatness. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1954, p. 45; see also Karl von Reinhard: Gedichte. Altona 1819, p. 279
  5. ↑ Carl Bröcker: The Freemason Lodge of Germany from 1737 up to and including 1893. Berlin: Mittler 1894, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Moltke, Friedrich Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moltke, Frederik Ludvig; JM (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein nobleman and last cathedral dean of the Lübeck bishopric
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Nygaard, Damsholte Sogn on Møn
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1824
Place of death Altona