Georg Ernst von Rüling

Georg Ernst von Rüling (born February 4, 1748 in Hanover , † February 10, 1807 in Celle ) was a German poet lawyer and court judge.

Life

Rüling was the son of the lawyer and Hanoverian court councilor August Rüling (1718–1776) and his wife Sophie Christina Strube (1726–1769), daughter of the British Hanoverian Vice Chancellor David Georg Strube (1694–1775).

Even when he was at school in Hanover, he belonged to a group of friends of the same age from the first families of the Electorate of Hanover, including the later Prussian State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg . Rülings order and nickname at this time was "Forete". From Easter 1767 to Easter 1770 he studied law at the University of Göttingen in this circle of friends, as can be seen from his family book from this time, which is now part of the manuscript department of the SUB Göttingen . After graduating, he entered the civil service of the Electorate of Hanover. He was court and chancellery advisor in Hanover, later he became a higher appeal judge at the Hanover Higher Appeal Court in Celle . Rüling was raised to imperial nobility in 1780 and was an Illuminate .

Early photography of the open grave (around 1880) ...

Rüling was married twice: first with Henriette Juliane Caroline von Willich (1755–1782), daughter of the Vice President of the Court of Appeal in Celle Georg Wilhelm von Willich , and with Charlotte Catharina Esther von Bibow (1765–1802). The classicist tomb for his wife Henriette, who died young of consumption, became the most famous grave in the garden cemetery in Hanover as the open grave in the 19th century, around which numerous legends and horror stories entwined.

Some of the philanthropic poems and songs by the poet lawyer Georg Ernst von Rüling appeared in the Göttingen Musenalmanach and were also set to music. This includes the folk song You should raise my song (1773), set to music by Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe . Rüling corresponded with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Adolph Knigge , among others .

Fonts

• with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Carl Emmanuel Reitzenstein: Four poems to Werther and Lotte , 1775
• Excerpts of some strange witch trials from the middle of the 17th century in the Principality of Calenberg , Göttingen 1786
• Poems , Meyer, Lemgo 1787 (German and French)
• Contribution to the History of Humanity in the Current Century, Regarding Crimes and Punishments , 1789
• One hundred and eighteen decisions of the Churhannovian Higher Appeal Court in Celle from the most recent times, Celle 1805 ( digitized version )

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers living now , 15th year (1811), p. 234
• Knesebeck: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover , Hahn, Hanover 1840
• Gunnar Henry Caddick: The Hannöversche Landsmannschaft at the University of Göttingen from 1737-1809. Göttingen 2002
• Dirk Böttcher : Rüling, Henriette von. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 303.
• Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (Ed.): Karl August von Hardenberg. 1750-1822. Diaries and autobiographical records (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 59). Boldt im Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56277-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl August von Hardenberg counts him in his autobiographical notes to his "Intimi", Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, Pr. Br. Rep. 37 Herrschaft Neuhardenberg No. 1621 Bl. 6 RS, quoted from Stamm-Kuhlmann, p. 89 (1758) , written there as “Rieling, afterwards † as Ob [er] App [ellations] Rath in Celle”; No. 1621 Bl. 6 RS, pp. 88/89 (1758); in Göttingen: Hardenberg's draft for a description of his life , Secret State Archives Preussischer Kulturbesitz , Berlin I HA Rep. 92 Hardenberg L 20, sheet 1 v, quoted from Stamm-Kuhlmann, p. 106 (1769–1770), there written as “Röling "; after studying in Hanover as before, sheet 2, quoted from Stamm-Kuhlmann, p. 108, there prescribed as "Röling"
2. ^ Carl August Hardenberg, as above, p. 89
3. ↑ 8 Cod. Ms. hist. Lit. 48 n (digitized version), running time 1767-1803
4. ↑ musenalm.de
5. ↑ Evidence at recmusic.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.