Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider
Johann Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider (born March 6, 1739 in Gera , † November 1, 1810 in Krinitz ) was a German officer , librarian , art collector and writer .
Live and act
From 1745 von Bretschneider was a pupil of the Herrnhut institute in Ebersdorf , then attended the grammar school in Gera and entered the Saxon military service in 1755 . He was wounded in the Battle of Kolin and was taken prisoner by the Prussians . In 1761 Bretschneider fought as a cavalry master in the Prussian Freicorps von Gschray against the French. In 1767 he was governor and in 1769 major in Idstein in Nassau-Usingischen .
Bretschneider made study trips to France , Holland and England from 1772 to 1773 . In 1776 he tried to settle in Vienna . From 1776 to 1778 he was deputy district chief of Werschetz . In July 1776 he succeeded the position of Deputy District Chief in Timisoara by applying to Count Niczky, but was in March 1780 imperial councilor and librarian by oven added.
Bretschneider was summoned to Vienna by Emperor Joseph II in 1783 and was commissioned to take over the Gasellian books and transfer them to Lemberg , where he himself was transferred and appointed Gubernialrat in 1793 . In 1908 he retired as a councilor . Bretschneider died on the Krinitz estate of his friend Count Wrtby .
The field marshal lieutenant and city commandant of Milan Friedrich von Bretschneider was his son.
Works
- Improvement of the food level and the population of the Temesian Banat, Vienna
- Count Essau. Comical hero poem, Vienna 1768
- Papillotes, Vienna 1769
- Murder story of young Werther, Vienna 1775
- Family history of the Junker Ferdinand von Thron, Vienna 1775
- Speech at the establishment of the Timisoara County the 22nd fallow month 1779, Timisoara Heimerl 1779
- On the arrival of his Excellency Count Karl Pálffi von Erdöd, royal court commissioner for the ceremonial establishment of the high school in Ofen, Ofen 1780
- Fables, romances and epithets, Pest 1781
- Preliminary report and comments on the philosophical history of today's Freemasons and anti-Freemasons, Vienna 1786
- Almanac of the Saints, Vienna 1789
- Answer of a Polish nobleman in the republic to his friend in Galicia, Warsaw 1790
- The voluntary contribution. Prelude, Vienna 1793
- Georg Waller's life and manners, Vienna 1793
- A horrific murder story about young Werther, how he killed himself on December 21st by a pistol shot, Leipzig 1910
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 140-143 ( digitized version ).
- Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf: Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 318 f.
- Gustav Gugitz : Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 602 ( digitized version ).
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
- Felix Milleker : Cultural History
- Linger : Memories from the life of the kk Hofrat HG v. Bretschneider, Vienna 1792
- New Banat Newspaper , May 8, 1980
Web links
- gera-chronik.de , Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bretschneider, Johann Heinrich Gottfried von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, librarian, art collector and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1810 |
| Place of death | Krinitz |