Hans Karl Heinrich von Trautzschen

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Hans Karl Heinrich von Trautzschen (born June 26, 1730 in Camburg , † October 26, 1812 in Dresden ) was a poet and military writer from the Electoral Saxon army.

Life

Hans Karl Heinrich's father was the Elector Carl Heinrich von Trautzschen, heir to Wittgendorf ; his mother was Joh. Sophie Elisabeth, b. from Langenau. Prepared by his last court master Johann Gottlob Sauppe , he attended the Altenburg grammar school at the age of twelve, but joined the Saxon military in 1745 at the age of 15. After the death of his father, von Trautzschen was soon forced to go bankrupt to sell his father's manor, which had been the family seat as early as the 15th century.

The young von Trautzschen stayed with the Saxon military and devoted himself to science and literature in his available time, and also exchanged ideas in these areas with his brother-in-law, Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg . Bad health since 1761, von Trautzschen retired after the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) from the military and to Ernstthal . There he put down his war experiences in writing and dealt with dramatic works that were published in two parts from 1772–1774.

In the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778/1779) he returned to the Saxon service and was active in the general staff. In 1784 he was ranked major in Dresden, at the end of 1790 as a lieutenant colonel and at the end of 1798 as a colonel of the infantry and adjutant of the government .

With his death in 1812, the male line of the von Trautzschen dynasty also ends , which probably got its name from the village of Trautzschen near Elstertrebnitz and is documented as early as the 14th century by Herrmann von Drautschen (1331) and Kunz von Druzschen (1372).

Works

  • Studbook of the Kgl. Saxon. Colonel of Dresden Hans Carl Heinrich von Trautzschen. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), signature: Mscr.Dresd.R.291.o (1752–1784).
  • Military and literary letters. Leipzig 1769.
  • Mixed writings of the author of the military letters. Chemnitz 1771.
  • German theater. Leipzig 1772–1773.
    • Reprint: Collection of original theatrical plays. Prague 1774.
  • Historical tables containing the strangest things in ancient, middle and new history, along with a geographical table. Leipzig, 1772 ff.
  • Principles of tactics, according to their theory, for learning the art of war and its practical application in various incidents of war, in an excerpt from the French. Dresden 1777.
    • (Original from Sinclaire: Institutions militaires ou traite elementaire de Tactique. )
  • Two standard speeches held by the war ministers von Gersdorff and Stutterheim. Dresden 1789.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contrary to the information in the ADB, Trautzschen was not born in Wittgendorf near Zeitz, but according to the church book entry from 1730 in Camburg.

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personal data
SURNAME Trautzschen, Hans Karl Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Poet and military writer from the Electoral Saxon army
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Camburg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1812
Place of death Dresden