Georg Ernst Tatter (diplomat)

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Georg Ernst Tatter (* 1757 in Hannover , † April 4 jul. / 16th April  1805 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a British-hannoveranischer Legationsrat and the subject of an unfulfilled love the romantic Muse Caroline Schelling .

Life

Tatter was the eldest son of the garden master of the Herrenhausen Gardens and grandson of the Hanoverian court gardener Georg Ernst Tatter . He studied theology in Göttingen from 1776 to 1778 , but then did not want to become a preacher, so he studied philosophy and politics and then became the educator and companion of the two eldest sons of the Electorate General Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn . During his time as British ambassador to the court in Vienna, Tatter was his secretary and also accompanied him when Wallmoden-Gimborn settled in Hanover in 1782.

In 1786 Tatter became the British legation secretary and accompanied the three sons of George III. , Adolf Friedrich , August Friedrich and Ernst August , during their studies at the University of Göttingen . He also taught the princes geography and history. Tatter obtained his doctorate in 1791.

After the death of her husband, Caroline Böhmer, better known as Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, returned to Göttingen in autumn 1788. She got to know Tatter at that time and fell in love with him, but left Göttingen anyway and lived with her brother in Marburg for a while , but then returned to Göttingen in autumn 1791, possibly to see Tatter again. In March 1792, after her father, Professor Johann David Michaelis , died and the family house had been sold, Caroline left Göttingen again and moved to Mainz, where Tatter visited her again in September.

In 1792 he followed Prince August to Italy, stayed there for 6 months in Rome, then went to England for a year and then returned to Italy, where he stayed for 4½ years and devoted himself to scholarly studies. At the end of 1797 he went to Hanover to see Adolf Friedrich and then in the summer of 1800 to England, where he was appointed the real legation secretary of the Electorate of Hanover embassy of Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Munster at the Russian court. In November 1800 he arrived in St. Petersburg, where he was appointed Legation Councilor and Chargé d'affaires after Münster's return to England . There he died of dropsy of the breast in 1805 after a two-month illness .

Tatter worked for many years and was a reviewer for the Göttingen Scholars Ads . He was a member of the Reale Accademia delle Scienze e Belle-Lettere in Naples and the Accademia dell'Arcadia in Rome .

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literature

  • Carl Haase : Caroline Michaelis and Georg Ernst Tatter. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch. 29, 1981, ISSN  0072-4882 , pp. 203-224.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Palm, Hubert Rettich: The orangery gardener Georg Ernst Tatter and his sons. The working and living environment of a Hanoverian court gardener family of the 18th century. In: Arbeitskreis Orangerie in Deutschland (Ed.): "From the orangery ..." and other garden stories. Festschrift for Heinrich Hamann. Potsdam 2002, pp. 140-175
  2. ↑ Eckart Kleßmann: Universitätsmamsellen: five enlightened women between Rococo, Revolution and Romanticism. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-4588-3 , p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Tatter, Georg Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Hanoverian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1805
Place of death St. Petersburg