Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon (born April 30, 1774 in Braunschweig , † June 29, 1851 in Kleve ) was a Prussian officer, writer and chess player.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon was the son of Jakob de Mauvillon , officer and military writer and his wife Marie Luise Scipio (born August 7, 1750 in Mengeringhausen ; † unknown). His grandfather Eléazar de Mauvillon (* July 15, 1712 in Tarascon , † April 26, 1779 in Braunschweig ) lived in the French lower Rhone region and was a member of the Augsburg creed . Because he felt pressured because of his faith, he initially moved to Dresden to the court of August III. , King of Poland and Elector of Saxony and was his private secretary there , then he moved to Leipzig and published French works before he moved to Braunschweig to teach the French language at the Collegium Karolinum . His sister was:

  • Friederike Wilhelmine von Mauvillon (* 1781 in Kassel ; † November 7, 1862), married to Johann Balthasar Stutzer (1754–1821), Colonel in Braunschweig.

His father, who spent most of his life in Braunschweig, was the teacher of Prince Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and was friends with him. He became a lieutenant colonel and chief of the engineering corps and wrote numerous literary works.

During the youth of Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon, Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau stayed with his father and wrote numerous works with him. Due to the wide-ranging knowledge of his father, who also trained him, princes of the ducal house and sons of several princes from other countries were sent to his father for training in the higher sciences and war theory, so Prince Wilhelm V of Orange came to Braunschweig; this gave Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon a lieutenant's patent and pulled him into Dutch service. He mainly went through training in the artillery and received the rank of colonel at the age of 30 .

In 1803 he was supposed to sail to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies and take over the supreme command of the Dutch army there as a general. On the outward journey, teams and supplies were collected in North America , but due to political developments in Europe he was recalled to Holland and placed under the Ministry of War as division chief. He stayed in this position until King Jérôme Bonaparte called him, as a born subject, to his services in the Kingdom of Westphalia , so that he returned to Kassel. He remained in his service until the end of his rule, then in 1813 he turned to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and asked him to join the Prussian army . He became chief of the Adjutantur of the Prussian-Saxon Army Corps and took part in several battles in the campaigns of the War of Liberation ; he led a bergisches voluntary Infantry Battalion in the interior of France, and remained during the occupation period as the Royal Prussian colonel commandant of the Meuse department in the strongholds Charleville and Mezieres.

After his return to Germany he was assigned command of the city and the district of Heiligenstadt as Landwehr district commander , which he held until he left the standing service in 1822.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon had been married to a Dutch woman since 1797, with whom he moved to Kleve in 1827. They had several children together, but only his youngest daughter survived.

Chess game

Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon was a passionate chess player and wrote several works on this. In 1804 the oldest known game of correspondence chess took place between the cities of The Hague (Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon) and Breda (officer, name not known).

Writing

Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon published many writings that dealt with military topics, but also with instructions and examples for chess games, which he translated into foreign languages. He published several volumes of Dutch poetry, which he translated into German. He also edited a number of political writings on the internal and external conditions of the Dutch state.

He maintained an extensive correspondence with scholars in London , Stockholm and Odessa .

Von Mauvillon was the editor of the military papers, for the publication of which he moved from Heiligenstadt to Essen .

Freemasonry

Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon was a member of the Freemasons .

Awards

He received a commemorative coin from the King of the Netherlands for his publications of Dutch poems.

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personal data
SURNAME Mauvillon, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mauvillon, Friedrich Wilhelm; Mauvillon, Friedrich; Mauvillon, Frederich W .; Mauvillon, FW of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian colonel and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1851
Place of death Kleve