Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg

Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg (born June 8, 1720 in Wolfenbüttel , † May 28, 1786 in Halberstadt ) was a Protestant cathedral dean and German hymnologist .

Life

He was the only son of the Magdeburg canon Philipp Adam von Hardenberg from the Wiederstedter line . In 1742 the 22-year-old became a minority student in Halberstadt and became a sub-senior there in 1779. After the death of Baron Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel , he was elected as his successor as cathedral dean of Halberstadt on June 22, 1785, but died before the end of a year.

The Halberstadt Literary Society elected him as one of its directors and, at his suggestion, published the Halberstädter Gemeinnützige Blätter zum Praise der Armen from 1785 , which appeared until 1791 with several of his poetic articles.

The son of Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , the poet and Halberstadt canon Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , maintained close contact with Hardenberg. This enabled him to use the Count's library in Wernigerode with its extensive hymnological collection. With the support of numerous helpers, Hardenberg created an alphabetical directory of all accessible evangelical spiritual and church hymns. At least 22 quarto volumes were created, 14 of which went to the library of the cathedral grammar school in Halberstadt and eight to the count's library in Wernigerode.

family

From his marriage to Maria Anna Dorothea Elisabeth geb. von Cornberg (* 1730), daughter of Georg Ludwig von Cornberg and Maria Anna Sophia von Donop, had a daughter, Marie Anna Helene Luise, who died in 1832.

He sold his Rethmar Castle near Hanover, inherited from his father in 1760, to his cousin, the Hanoverian vice- chief stable master Friedrich August von dem Bussche -Lohe, in 1768 because of excessive debt. The Saxon estate and castle Frohburg was foreclosed in 1778 due to bankruptcy.

plant

Hardenberg's lexicon of songs contains some errors and has long been out of date, but it is an important work for the processing of the history of hymnology. Hardenberg also recorded 118 songs he wrote himself in his work.

literature

• Steffen Tiggeler: Hardenberg, Georg Ludwig von. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 298 .

Web links

• Eduard Jacobs :  Hardenberg, Georg Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 570-572.