Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänkendorf

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Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänkendorf in 1824, painted by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänkendorf was President of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences from 1795 to 1817.

Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänkendorf (born April 21, 1765 in See , † October 15, 1836 in Oppach ) was a Saxon politician from Upper Lusatia . Under the pseudonym Arthur vom Nordstern , he became known as a writer beyond the borders of his homeland.

origin

Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz was born in 1765 on his father's estate in See . His parents were Wolf Gottlob von Nostitz (1718–1768) and his second wife Iuliana Eleonora Ernestine von Kiesenwetter. The father came from the Jänkendorfer line of the von Nostitz family .

Life

After the early death of his father, his mother took care of his education so that he was able to study law and political science at the University of Leipzig at the age of 16 . At the age of 20, Nostitz entered the civil service as a finance advisor, but left it in 1789 to take over the administration of his father's property.

Back in Upper Lusatia, in 1792 he became state elder of the Bautzen district and in 1804 senior governor, and he also founded a poor house on his estate in Oppach . In 1790 Nostitz joined the still young Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz and from 1793 worked for the Lusatian monthly journal. At the age of 30, the Society elected him President in 1795 - an office he only resigned in 1817 as a result of the division of Upper Lusatia .

In 1806 Nostitz was appointed senior consistorial president to Dresden and entrusted with the revision of the constitution of the University of Leipzig. In 1809, as a real conference minister , he became a permanent member of the then secret consilium, which later became the secret council of the Saxon King. During the Wars of Liberation , his pro-Napoleonic attitude turned into deep dislike during the Saxon coalition, and Nostitz's son Eduard Gottlob even joined the Prussian army.

After the wars Nostitz worked on the equalization of war compensation, took care of the top management of the Landsarmenkommission and reorganized the sanatorium for the mentally ill at the former Sonnenstein fortress near Pirna, which gained European reputation under him. In 1824 he founded a state orphanage in Bräunsdorf near Freiberg, in which, according to a new plan, 150 pupils were raised to be farmers, craftsmen or soldiers, and made a well-deserved contribution to other institutions around the country. In 1808 he was admitted to the Masonic Lodge at the Golden Wall in Bautzen; from 1830 he held the office of Grand Master of the Great State Lodge of Saxony .

Nostitz contributed to the establishment of the first Saxon constitution and was one of the signatories of the constitutional charter. He became conference minister and presided over the newly created State Council.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänkendorf was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by the University of Leipzig in 1835 . He died the following year on his estate in Oppach.

family

He married Henriette Sophia von Bose (born February 28, 1769) in 1786 . The couple had several children:

  • Traugott Adolf Carl (* 1787)
  • Eduard Gottlob (born March 31, 1791 - † February 18, 1858), politician, heir to the Oppach manor
⚭ 1816 Erdmuthe von Beschwitz (born January 28, 1798; † July 17, 1821)
⚭ 1824 Baron Therese von Gutschmidt († 1860)
  • Theodor (* 1792)
  • Julius Gottlob (* July 12, 1797; † March 18, 1870), civil servant, diplomat ⚭ 1825 Erdmuthe Charlotte Luise von Rex-Thielau (* December 20, 1805; † July 18, 1884)
  • Elise Henriette (1788-1853)
  • Therese Clementine (1789–1870)
  • Lydia Augustina (1794-1810)
  • Ida Rosalie (* 1796)
  • Agnes Louise (1800–1875) ⚭ Julius August Marshal von Altengottern (born May 17, 1799)
  • Clara Minona (1799–1882) ⚭ Viktor Julius von Bülow , Beyernaumburg Castle .
  • Klotilde Septimia (1801-1852), poet
  • Heliodora Octavia (1805-1871)

Works

  • Experiment on poor relief institutions in villages (1801)
  • Chants of wisdom, virtue and joy for social gatherings (1802)
  • Greek and Roman myths, in letters to Emilie. Based on the French (1802–1804)
  • Valeria, a romantic poem in 4 songs. After Chevalier de Florian (1803)
  • Song circle for Freemasons (1815)
  • Gems, interpreted by Arthur vom Nordstern (1818)
  • Symbols of Christians explained (1818)
  • Irene. Five chants. After Lord Byron (1819)
  • Circle of Saxon Ancestors (1819)
  • Memories of a Traveler in Midsummer 1822 (1824)
  • Suggestions for the Heart and Life (1825–1826)
  • Glimpses of the future into the hereafter (1833)
  • Robert. Ten chants (unpublished)
  • Caspar Nostitz. - The ancestor of his great-grandson, his children and grandchildren is shown. From the life of Kaspar von Nostitz (1594–1633) on Jänkendorf (unpublished)

In addition to a large number of occasional poems, Arthur vom Nordstern also has various translations, including Byron from English. In Görlitz he also met the first German Byron translator, Friedrich Ludwig von Tschirschky and Bögendorf (1769–1829).

Honors

literature

  • Boris Böhm: The Saxon Conference Minister Gottlob Adolf Ernst von Nostitz and Jänckendorf (1765–1836). in: Sächsische Heimatblätter 61 (2015) 2, pp. 158–161.
  • Franz Brümmer :  Nostitz, Gottlob Adolf Ernst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 32 f.
  • Felix A. Voigt : Gottlob Adolph Ernst von Nostitz (Arthur vom Nordstern) as a poet. In: 150 Years of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences 1779–1929. Verlag der Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Görlitz 1929, pp. 61–75.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903, fourth year, p.627f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The history of the Luttitz-Nostitzschen Burglehnhaus. (PDF; 712 kB) Retrieved July 9, 2013 .
  2. ^ Frank & Uwe Fiedler: Pictures of life from Upper Lusatia. Books on Demand, 5th edition 2013, p. 169, ISBN 978-3-8423-5177-6
  3. ↑ Henriette Sophia von Bose at ancestry.com
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1862, p.514
  5. ^ DDB
  6. ^ State archive Saxony-Anhalt
personal data
SURNAME Nostitz and Jänkendorf, Gottlob Adolf Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arthur from the North Star
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH lake
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1836
Place of death Oppach