Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz (born April 25, 1758 in Erdmannsdorf , † March 9, 1834 in Zerbst ) was a German publicist .
Life
The son of the owner of the Erdmannsdorf manor and governor of the Erzgebirge district Julius Ernst von Schütz (1721–1793) studied law in Leipzig from 1777 to 1779 . After that he worked as a writer.
The Enlightenment advocated the emancipation of the Jews one ( apology Nathan the Wise concerning 1781; lives and opinions Moses Mendelssohn 1787) and turned Freemasonry to. He was also a member of the Rosicrucians and the Illuminati Order for some time . However, he soon viewed these orders as aberrations of Freemasonry and parted with them.
In 1787 he went to Altona / Elbe , which at that time belonged to Denmark . There he published the archive of enthusiasm and enlightenment . Here he entered the Masonic lodge "To the shiny rock", which he soon left when the Jewish members in it had to leave the lodge.
After the beginning of the French Revolution , he tried to spread their ideas through his writings. From July 1792 he published the Lower Saxony Mercury in Hamburg , which was banned in December of the same year. To avoid Prussian stalking, he was employed by the French envoy as secretary in November. In 1792, as a Freemason who was open to reform, he co-founded the Christian-Jewish lodge "Unity and Tolerance", a so-called tolerance lodge in Hamburg.
After a defeat by the French revolutionary troops, he was expelled from Hamburg in 1793 and settled as a private citizen near Hamburg. From 1796 to 1797 he published the New Archive of Enthusiasm and Enlightenment and the New Lower Saxony Mercury .
After the end of the French Revolution by Napoléon Bonaparte , he concentrated on Freemasonry. In 1819 he moved to Zerbst, where he published Masonic writings until his death on March 9, 1834. In 1824 his work Free Confessions of a Veteran of Masonry and other secret societies appeared in Leipzig for the benefit of the initiated and for interesting instruction for non-Masons , in which he describes his Masonic career and his attitude to the currents in Freemasonry of that time.
Works
- Apology concerning Nathan the Wise , 1781
- Life and opinions of Moses Mendelssohn , 1787
- Archive of enthusiasm and enlightenment
- Lower Saxony Mercury , 1792
- New archive of enthusiasm and enlightenment , 1796 to 1797
- New Lower Saxony Mercury , 1796 to 1797
- CF Sintenis life and work, as a person, writer and pulpit speaker. A biographical sketch with regard to several of his writings / edited by FW von Schütz. Zerbst: Adolph Friedrich von Schütz, 1820
- History of the wars in Europe since 1792 as a result of the change of state in France under King Louis XVI. Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 5 , Volume 6, Part 1 , Volume 6, Part 2 , Volume 8 , Volume 9, Part 2 , Volume 11, Part 1 , Volume 11, Part 2 , Volume 12, Part 1 , Volume 13, Part 2 , Volume 15, Part 1
literature
- Walter Grab : The publications of the democrat Friedrich Wilhelm von Schütz . In: same: Democratic currents in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein at the time of the first French republic . Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1966, pp. 38–67. (= Publications of the Association for Hamburg History . Volume XXI)
- Walter Grab: Schütz, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History . Edited by Karl Obermann , Heinrich Scheel , Helmuth Stoecker a . a. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, pp. 428–429.
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Remarks
- ↑ Since 1884, his year of birth has been given incorrectly due to the entry in the death register. According to the Erdmannsdorf birth register, Ms. W. v. Schütz born in 1758.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütz, Friedrich Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erdmannsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1834 |
| Place of death | Zerbst |