Gustav Anton von Seckendorff

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Gustav Anton Freiherr von Seckendorff (born November 20, 1775 in Meuselwitz , † 1823 in Alexandria, Louisiana ) was a German writer , actor and declamator .

origin

Gustav Anton Freiherr von Seckendorff was born as the son of Colonel Friedrich Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff (* August 20, 1727 - December 25, 1799) and Charlotte Friederike Henriette von Tümpling-Sorna (* June 16, 1737). He had several brothers including:

Life

He studied in Freiberg , Leipzig and Wittenberg , stayed in the United States ( Pennsylvania ) from 1796 to 1798 , and then joined the Electoral Saxon service as a bailiff in Torgau . In 1807 he became chamber director in Sachsen-Hildburghausen , but he was dismissed after seven months. From 1808 to 1812 he traveled to Germany as a declamator, actor and mime artist under the name of Patrik Peale. In the summer of 1811 he visited the painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein in Eutin . After receiving his doctorate in Göttingen in 1812 , he lectured there as a private lecturer . In 1814 he was appointed professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig . In 1821 he went back to America, where he died in poverty two years later in Alexandria , Louisiana .

family

He married on October 28, 1796 in Havre de Grace , Maryland, the Philadelphia- born Betty Maria Elisabeth Lechler (born May 29, 1782, † June 19, 1858). The couple had several children:

  • Friedrich Eduard (November 12, 1797 - March 16, 1863), Dr. med., royal Saxon district doctor, ducal Saxon-Altenburg court councilor ⚭ August 24, 1824 Emilie Christiane Laub (* April 5, 1802; † January 31, 1865)
  • William Carl Adam (* October 8, 1799; † August 30, 1863), Brunswick Saline Director ⚭ August 8, 1824 Jeannette Hartmann (* June 7, 1805; † May 13, 1886)
  • Robert (March 30, 1801; † May 2, 1882), captain of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha
⚭ January 12, 1831 Julie Auguste Glenck (April 8, 1808; † September 1834)
⚭ October 9, 1836 Isidore Adolfine von Heldreich (* July 15, 1812 - † January 6, 1891)
  • Richard (born September 26, 1810 - † March 25, 1887), Prussian major a. D. ⚭ February 16, 1855 Thekla von Beulwitz (* April 17, 1831; † February 11, 1906)
  • Evan Theodorich Ulfilas August (born January 17, 1821 - † August 5, 1882), former Prussian lieutenant colonel. D.
⚭ April 8, 1847 Pauline Auguste Wilhelmine Franziska Juliane von Flemming (* February 4, 1826 - † October 26, 1864)
⚭ December 9, 1869 Hedwig Julie Eleonore Ribbentrop (March 16, 1841 - April 17, 1912)

Works

  • Otto III. A tragedy in five acts. Torgau 1805.
  • Criticism of art. Goettingen 1812.
  • Lectures on the fine arts of antiquity and modern times: with contributions to the development of artists. Aarau 1814.
  • Orsina. Tragedy in five acts, as a follow-up to Lessing's Emilia Galotti. Brunswick 1815.
  • Lectures on declamation and facial expressions. Brunswick 1816.
  • Principles of Philosophical Politics. A handbook for lectures. Leipzig 1817.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz , Diplomatische Nachrichten , Volume 5, p.175
  2. ^ Gustav Anton von Seckendorff: From Eutin . In: Newspaper for the elegant world . No. 161, August, pp. 1287-1288.
  3. ^ Henry A. Smith (ed.): Eutin - Heidelberg 1811. Correspondence between the student Ernst Hellwag and his family in Eutin. (= Eutin Research , Volume 11.) Eutin State Library, Eutin 2009, ISBN 9783939643029 , p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Seckendorff, Gustav Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peale, Patrick (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz
DATE OF DEATH 1823
Place of death Alexandria , Louisiana