Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz

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Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz

Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig Baron von Canitz (born November 27, 1654 in Berlin , † August 11, 1699 in Blumberg near Berlin) was a Brandenburg-Prussian diplomat and poet .

His parents were the Brandenburg Chamberlain and Court and Court Judge Ludwig von Kanitz (Canitz) (1626–1654), Prussian district administrator and captain of Balga , younger brother of Elias, who died shortly after the marriage (1653) and before the birth of his son von Kanitz , and Margarethe Katharina von Burgsdorff (1637–1691), daughter of the Brandenburg Chamberlain Konrad von Burgsdorff (1595–1652) and Anna Elisabeth von Loeben (1604–1684), heiress of the paternal estates of Blumberg , Dahlwitz , Eiche and Hellersdorf which were passed on from her directly to her grandson Canitz.

Life

Canitz, from the Prussian branch of the von Kanitz family , studied law in Leiden and Leipzig from 1671 . As part of a customary grand tour , he undertook extensive trips to Italy , France , England and Holland from 1675 to 1677 . In doing so, he was able to enrich his language and literature skills and, at the same time, get to know important personalities, which particularly interested him. So he met the scholar Athanasius Kircher , who was highly respected at the time , in Rome and the Grand Duke Cosimo III in Florence . de 'Medici and in Padua Charles Godmother , who brought him together with other scholars living there.

Canitz is said to have distinguished himself early on through pleasant manners, a high level of confidence in appearance and unusual mediation skills. Fontane describes him as a "lovable, fine and inwardly arranged nature".

His short life, however, was overshadowed by personal tragedies. Canitz grew up fatherless and estranged from his mother, who had been remarried twice, under the care of his grandmother Burgsdorff. A decisive event was the death of his first wife in 1695, after five of his six children from this marriage had died at an early age. Even the only son he had left, who died at a boyhood, was only to survive him by a few weeks.

Canitz was 1677 Kammerjunker Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg ( the Great Elector ) and 1680 Counselor . In 1683 he became official governor of Zossen and Trebbin , later the offices of Mühlenhof and Mühlenbeck . As governor of the Mühlenhof, Canitz received the order from the Elector in 1683 to lead a comprehensive renovation of Berlin's Mühlendamm including the existing buildings.

Coat of arms issued by the emperor in 1698 for Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz

Elector Friedrich III. appointed him a Privy Council of State in 1697 and then a Real Privy Council. 1698 he was selected by Emperor Leopold I in the realm baron conditions applicable. He worked in the diplomatic service of Brandenburg, represented his sovereign on numerous diplomatic missions, was sent several times to the Viennese court, where he also worked as the Brandenburg ambassador for a time, and took part in 1699 as an authorized minister in the negotiations on the Spanish that opened in The Hague Inheritance part. There he fell ill and resigned from his post.

He died that same year in Blumberg and was buried next to his first wife in the hereditary funeral of the von Roebel family, to whom there was a family relationship through his mother's family, in the Marienkirche in Berlin . One week after the funeral, Canitz's friend, Philipp Jacob Spener , gave a commemorative sermon in the neighboring Nikolaikirche , which was later published in print.

His poetic oeuvre can be assigned to the transition period between the Baroque and the Enlightenment and is seen as a style-forming element in German literary studies. His poems as well as satires influenced by French classicism ( Nicolas Boileau ) have come down to us, a selection of which was only published posthumously, since Canitz had not intended them for the wider public.

Even before the Prussian King Frederick the Great , who was notorious for his Gallomania in all literary works , the poetic work of Baron von Canitz, written in German, found favor when he wrote about him: "c'est le Pope de l'Allemagne, le poëte le plus élégant, le plus correct et le moins diffus qui ait fait des vers en notre langue (he is Germany's pope, the most elegant, correct and least diffuse poet of our language) " . Goethe named Canitz first among the poetic works worth mentioning in his father's library and counted him among the authors who had impressed him with "awe of poetry" .

His mourning poem after the death of his wife Doris is famous. A lied composition from 1772 is available for his poem The Satisfaction in the Low Stand , which is listed in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's catalog raisonné ( KV 151 or 125 f.), But possibly penned by his father Leopold .

He became the namesake of the Friedrich von Canitz elementary school and the Kulturverein von Canitz e. V. in Blumberg.

family

His first wife was Dorothea Emerentia von Arnim (1656–1695), Doris, in February 1681 , she was the daughter of Berenth Friedrich von Arnim and Hedwig Sophia von Kracht (the latter married the court chamber president Raban von Canstein to his son Philipp Ludwig Freiherr von Canstein Blumberg fell after the death of Canitz.). His second wife became Freiin Dorothea Maria von Schwerin on December 29, 1696 (* 1670; † June 24, 1729), daughter of Otto von Schwerin . After Canitz's death, the widow married Baron Karl Albrecht von Schönaich on November 9, 1708 (* May 20, 1671; † May 20, 1738).

Works (selection)

  • Additional hours of different poems , Berlin 1700 (anonymous first edition, edited by Joachim Lange) a. ö. (only from 1719 with attribution) ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Des Freyherrn von Caniz's poems ... improved and increased by Johann Ulrich König , Leipzig and Berlin 1727 (Ndr. Ed. Jürgen Stenzel, Tübingen 1982)
  • Brief description of the Roman Kayser , Nuremberg 1744 (new version Rostock 1760; digitized version )

literature

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  1. ↑ In the year of his death, the Prussian poet Simon Dach dedicated a 28-stanza "Last and well-deserved honorary memory" to Ludwig von Kanitz, Berlin 1654
  2. ↑ A detailed description of the course of the journey is contained in the "Description of Life" in the work edition of his poems by Johann Ulrich König , 3rd edition, Leipzig and Berlin 1750, on p. 19 ff.
  3. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Canitz,+Friedrich+Rudolph+Ludwig+von/Biographie
  4. ^ Theodor Fontane, Walks through the Mark Brandenburg, fourth volume, Spreeland, Munich 1971/1977, p. 181 ff
  5. ↑ Philipp Jakob Spener, Frey-Herrliches Canitzisches Last Ehren-Gedächtnis / erected in two corpse sermons, Berlin, Schlechtiger, 1700
  6. ↑ Oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand, Works of Frederick the Great, Volume 1, p. 264, digital edition of the Trier University Library, http://friedrich.uni-trier.de/de/oeuvres/1/264/text/?h= Canitz
  7. ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Poetry and Truth, First Volume, Second Book, Jubilee Edition, Volume 22, p. 91 and Volume 38, p. 98

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personal data
SURNAME Canitz, Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanitz, Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1699
Place of death Berlin