Friedrich Magnus II. (Solms-Laubach)
Friedrich Magnus II of Solms-Laubach (born November 21, 1711 in Wetzlar , † August 17, 1738 in Laubach ) was a ruling Count of Solms-Laubach .
Life
Friedrich Magnus was the second-born son of the Count, Reichshofrat , Protestant Reich Chamber Court President and Imperial Privy Councilor Friedrich Ernst zu Solms-Laubach (1671–1723) and Friederike Charlotte Countess zu Stolberg-Gedern (1686–1729), sister of the Count, who was raised to the princehood in 1742 Friedrich Carl zu Stolberg-Gedern .
Friedrich Magnus II was a book fanatic, who already spent his pocket money on it as a child and even kept a “book diary”. As a young man with high gambling debts, the poet, "Landvögtin" and Baroness Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff lent him money on the condition that he should start a different life. He later became President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar.
He died of biliary fever in 1738.
literature
- Carl Günther Ludovici : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , JH Zedler, 1743, p. 616. Link
- Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach: History of the Count and Princely House of Solms. Adelmann, Frankfurt am Main 1865, pp. 358–359.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solms-Laubach, Friedrich Ernst Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of August 8, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ A golden glimmer from distant times. The Laubach Castle Library invites you to an exhibition in old gardens [In:] Unseroberhessen , Volume 88, 2/2012, pp. 20–21.
- ↑ Michael Sachs: The flight of the evangelical wife Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664– ~ 1745) with her five children from Silesia, threatened by forced Catholicization, in 1703 - a mood picture from the age of the Counter Reformation and Pietism. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 221–263, here: p. 227.
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SURNAME | Friedrich Magnus II. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solms-Laubach, Friedrich Magnus II. To |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count and President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1711 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1738 |
Place of death | Laubach |