Giacomo de Quirini

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Giacomo de Quirini (also: Giacomo Quirini ; * before 1692 in Venice , † after 1710 ) was a military , building administration official, chamberlain and diplomat .

Life

The Venetian from the de Quirini family worked at the court of the Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Hanover from 1692 to 1710 . There he worked as a cavalier with the rank of colonel .

In 1698, the " Marquis Quirini" was commissioned as chamberlain and construction director of the Hanoverian court to build the new Herrenhausen Palace. In the following year 1699 he took the daughter of the late Duke Johann Friedrich , Princess Amalie, as bride to the Roman-German King and later Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , Joseph I , in Modena .

For the “Court of the Muses” created by Electress Sophie at the Herrenhausen Palace and the Great Garden , Quirini and Leibniz , Ortensio Mauro , Agostino Steffani and others were part of the spiritual center of Herrenhausen.

From 1708 de Quirini worked - although he was not a technician - as the head of the sovereign building industry . He worked in Wolfenbüttel, among others .

Famous works

  • 1704–1708: Expansion of the Herrenhausen Palace in front of Hanover under the direction of Quirini

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o. V .: Quirini, Giacomo de in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on February 22, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Keyword Giacomo Quirini in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 135, 252, 280
  3. ^ A b c Wilhelm Rothert : de Quirini, Giacomo , in ders .: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 512
  4. ^ A b Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German Courts since the Reformation , Volume 18, Part 3: History of the Courts of the House of Braunschweig in Germany and England, Department 3: The Court of Hanover, London and Braunschweig , Part 1, Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1853, pp. 160-161; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Quirini, Giacomo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quirini, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg Colonel, building administration officer and head of the state building
DATE OF BIRTH before 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH after 1710