Georg August (Erbach-Schönberg)
Georg August, Count of Erbach-Schönberg (born June 17, 1691 in Waldenburg , † March 29, 1758 in König (Odenwald) ), was the founder of the Erbach-Schönberg line and evangelical denomination.
origin
His parents were Georg Albrecht II Posthumus Count zu Erbach (1648-1717) and his wife Anna Dorothea Christina, née Countess zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1656-1724). When the inheritance was divided, three brothers were still alive:
- Philipp Karl (1677–1736), he founded the Erbach-Fürstenau line
- Georg Wilhelm (1686–1757), he founded the Erbach-Erbach line
- Georg August (1691–1758) founded the Erbach-Schönberg line
Life
After training with private tutors, he came to the University of Giessen in 1711 and the University of Leipzig in 1712 . He then went on his Grand Tour until his father died in 1717 and he was now the ruling count. With the division of the estate, he became the founder of the younger line at Schönberg. After the older line of Erbach was extinguished in 1747, half of the reign of Breuberg and the offices of Schönberg and König also fell to him.
He began to expand his residential palace in König and was the builder of the churches in Reichenbach , Rimbach and König. For his house he led the primogeniture in 1748 , the imperial confirmation required for this came in 1752. He was also a real imperial councilor and director of the Franconian counts' college.
He was buried in Gronau .
family
He married on December 15, 1719 in Gedern Ferdinande Henriette Countess zu Stolberg-Gedern (1699–1750), a sister of Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode and Friedrich Carl zu Stolberg-Gedern . The couple had several children:
- Christina (1721–1769) ⚭ 1742 Heinrich XII. Reuss zu Schleiz (1716–1784)
- Georg Ludwig II. (1723–1777), from 1758 Count zu Erbach-Schönberg ⚭ 1764 Princess Friederike Sophie Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1736–1769), daughter of Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
- Franz Karl (1724–1788), from 1777 Count zu Erbach-Schönberg, Dutch major general ⚭ 1778 Auguste Karoline zu Ysenburg and Büdingen in Büdingen (1758–1815)
- Christian Adolf (1725–1726)
- Karoline Ernestine (1727–1796) ⚭ 1754 Heinrich XXIV. Reuss von Lobenstein zu Ebersdorf (1724–1779)
- Christian (1728–1799), from 1788 Count zu Erbach-Schönberg
- Auguste Friederike (1730–1801) ⚭ 1753 Christian Friedrich Karl Graf von Giech-Thurnau (1729–1797)
- Georg August (1731–1799), French brigadier
- Karl Eugen , from 1799 Count zu Erbach-Schönberg, KK Generalfeldzeugmeister (1732–1816) ⚭ 1783 Maria Johanna Zadubsky von Schönthal (1757–1787)
- Friedrich (* / † 1733)
- Luise Eleonore (1735–1816) ⚭ 1750 Leopold Kasimir van Rechteren (1717–1778), Lord of Collendoorn and the Dam
- Casimir (1736–1760)
- Gustav Ernst (1739–1812), French maréchal de camp , Prussian major general ⚭ 1782 Henriette Christiane zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1753–1816)
literature
- Georg August Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg in the Hessian biography
- Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. Frankfurt am Main 1858, ( p. 469 f. )
- Complete Hoch-Gräflich-Erbachische Stamm-Tafel , p. 198
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument to the loving and grateful memory of d. Exalted Count Friedrich Carl Hermann von Gierch born. zu Thurnau on October 22, 1791, d. zu Gastein on July 6, 1846 , p. 12.
- ↑ AJ van der Aa: Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 16, p. 199.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Georg August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erbach-Schönberg, Georg-August Graf zu; Erbach-Schönberg, Georg August Graf too |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of the Erbach-Schönberg line, ruling count |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1691 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1758 |
| Place of death | King (Odenwald) |