Georg von Blankensee

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Georg von Blankensee (born November 4, 1792 at Filehne Castle ; † July 14, 1867 in Teschenau ) was a German writer and musician .

Life

Georg Friedrich Alexander Graf von Blankensee came from the nobility of New Marks, the Blankensee family . He was the second son of the Prussian chamberlain and cathedral dean of the Hochstift Cammin Alexander Sigismund Friedrich Richard Georg von Blankensee (1747-1817) and his wife Freiin Auguste Dorothea von Hagen (1757-1819).

He attended Hartungsche school in Berlin and studied in Halle and Goettingen jurisprudence . From 1813 to 1815 he took part in the Wars of Liberation as a Prussian volunteer officer. In 1815 he was employed by the Prussian government in Posen and a year later he was secretary of the legation in Turin . Together with Wilhelm Hensel , Friedrich von Kalckreuth (1790–1873), Wilhelm Müller and Wilhelm von Studnitz , he edited the collection of poems "Bundesblüthen". In 1816 the song play "Mayglöckchen", written together with Helmina von Chézy (printed in 1817 in Neue Auserlesene Schriften der Karschin's granddaughter), was written. He also contributed two poems to Chézy's collection “Auricles” (Berlin 1818). After his mother's death, Blankensee took over the Wugarten estate and castle (today Ogardy ) in 1819 . After that he lived alternately in Berlin and on his estates. At the beginning of 1820 he stayed in Dresden , where he first came into contact with Carl Maria von Weber . Weber set some of Blankensee's texts to music. In December 1824, while visiting Weimar , he met Goethe . In 1825 he was a cavalier at the extraordinary Prussian embassy in Paris . Blankensee became a Prussian chamberlain and Knight of the Order of St. John .

In 1830 he married Ludovica Franziska von Wessenberg -Ampringen. The daughter Marie Auguste Ludovica Franziska Wilhelmine, born in 1834, married Friedrich Paul Guido Clothar Graf von Fircks (1824-1896) in 1857 . After the first marriage was divorced, he married Amalie Princess von Schoenaich-Carolath (1798–1864) in 1837 . Through this marriage, Blankensee came into possession of a valuable collection of paintings (with works from the Italian High Renaissance as well as by Giovanni Battista Cima , Giovanni and Gentile Bellini , Sandro Botticelli and Giotto ). After the death of Carl von Brühl, he was therefore under discussion as a candidate for the management of the Berlin museums (after the advocacy of Alexander von Humboldt , however, Ignaz von Olfers was appointed).

Blankensee composed songs with piano or guitar accompaniment and published them in 1827 (with Trautwein in Berlin), 1833 (with Meser in Dresden) and 1835 (with Zesch in Berlin). He also composed two piano waltzes under the title “Greetings to friends and friends” (Berlin 1828), variations for violin and piano (op. 18–20, Berlin 1858) as well as other dances and eight concertos for violin and piano resp. Orchestra (unpublished).

Count von Blankensee died on a bathing trip. The painter Wilhelm Hensel had portrayed Count Blankensee in 1820, 1822, 1826 and 1857.

Works

  • De Iudicio Iuratorum apud Graecos et Romanos . Göttingen 1812 (diss.)
  • Federal Blooms . Berlin 1816 ( digitized version )
  • Carlo . Tragedy 1820
  • Poems by a northerner . Berlin 1824
  • The hiker. Poem in two songs . Wroclaw 1830
  • The missing one. Legacy from Italy in two songs . Berlin 1833
  • Estate of a divorced man . Berlin 1835
  • Oath courts. A historical and political treatise on the origin of the same from the most ancient times . Berlin 1848 ( digitized version )
  • Songs of a seer . Berlin 1849
  • Prussian death wreaths . Berlin 1852 ( digitized version )
  • The Emperor of Russia Nicolaus I. Majesty Hingang . Berlin 1855
  • His Majesty To King Friedrich Wilhelm the Fourth Obituary . Berlin 1861
  • Poems by Georg Count von Blankensee. Follow the poems of a northerner . Berlin 1864
  • Moritz of Saxony. Dramatic poem in three sections . Berlin 1865

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SURNAME Blankensee, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blankensee, Georg Friedrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Filehne
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1867
Place of death Teschenau