Gottlob Friedrich Ernst Schönborn
Gottlob Friedrich Ernst Schönborn (born September 15, 1737 in Stolberg in the Harz, † January 29, 1817 at Emkendorf Castle ) was a German diplomat in Danish service with close ties to writers, especially those of the Hainbund in Göttingen .
Life
Schönborn was the son of a preacher who came to Bordelum in Holstein in 1740 . In 1755 he attended the school of the Berge monastery , from 1758 he studied theology in Halle . In 1761 he was tutor at Gut Trenthorst . He became friends with Matthias Claudius , whom he accompanied to Copenhagen in 1764 or 1766 , where he became court master in the house of Minister Bernstorff in 1768 . After his fall, he followed him and Klopstock to Hamburg (1771/72).
In 1770 or 1771 Schönborn was accepted into the Masonic lodge to the three roses in Hamburg by von Rosenberg, who also accepted Lessing.
The younger Bernstorff then appointed him Danish consulate secretary in Algiers . On his way to Marseille, the trip took him to Göttingen , where he stayed in September / October 1773, spoke to the Hainbund members and encouraged some to join the Masonic lodge. In Frankfurt am Main he made friends with Goethe , living in his family's house. He served in his office in Algiers from 1774 to 1777 and experienced the unsuccessful attempt at landing by the Spaniards there.
From 1777–1802 he was legation secretary in London under various envoys and took his retirement from 1802–1806 in Hamburg in the house of Friedrich Perthes , the son-in-law of Matthias Claudius . In 1803 he visited Anton Matthias Sprickmann in Münster. When he visited Count Friedrich Karl Reventlow at Gut Emkendorf in 1806 , he made a friendship there, perhaps a secret marriage with Katharina Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg , the sister of Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , and stayed at the castle in the Emkendorfer district .
Schönborn wrote poems and essays that were published in the Wandsbecker Boten , the Göttingen Musenalmanach and the Deutsches Museum .
literature
- Max Koch: Schönborn, Gottlob Friedrich Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 280 f.
- Johann Georg Rist : Schönborn and his contemporaries . In: Johann Georg Rist's Memoirs, ed. by G. Poel. 3rd part. Gotha 1888, pp. 274–333 (first publication of this part in 1836).
- Gero von Wilpert : Goethe-Lexikon (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 407). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9 , p. 953.
Footnotes
- ↑ according to other sources 1764–1766
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönborn, Gottlob Friedrich Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1737 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolberg in the Harz Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1817 |
| Place of death | at Emkendorf Castle |