Heinrich Karl Rosenstiel

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Heinrich Karl Rosenstiel , also Henry Charles Rosenstiel (born October 28, 1751 in Mietesheim in Alsace, † February 4, 1826 in Paris ) was a French envoy, knight of the Legion of Honor and member of the consistory of the Protestant community in Paris. He achieved contemporary fame as a survivor of the so-called Rastatt envoy murder.

Life

He received his first training together with his younger brother Friedrich Philipp, first from his father, then at the grammar school in Buchsweiler. He then studied law in Strasbourg, also with his brother. There he was in contact with Goethe , Jung-Stilling , Herder , Lenz and Johann Lorenz Blessig , in whose parents' house he lived. He married Louise Weyland, the sister of Friedrich Leopold Weyland , a college friend of Goethe.

Stich: Return of the survivors of the murder of the envoy to Rastatt

After completing his doctorate, he returned to Buchsweiler as a lawyer, and in 1776 accepted a position as a “secretaire interprète” originally offered to his brother. In 1795 he was sent to Elbing as consul ("Consul de la république francaise pour la Baltique") . From 1797 he was the French legation secretary for negotiations in Rastatt. After the failure of the congress, the French ambassadors left on April 28, 1799, among them Rosenstiel, and were ambushed shortly after Rastatt, possibly by Austrian hussars. The ambassadors Bonnier and Roberjot were murdered. Rosenstiel escaped on foot through swamps and fled to the Prussian embassy, ​​where he received protection and care , especially from his long-time friend Dohm . His records were looted. "In his 73rd year," he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor. He lived in Paris until his death, where he was buried in a grave that still exists today (2012) in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhardt Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 3, Part 1, 1827, pp. 229–243 ( digitized version ) at Google books
  • Johann Friedrich von Cotta: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, May 25, 1799 (contemporary report on the murder of the ambassadors), pp. 615–617 Digitized at Google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus, 1837 vol. 3, page 626
  2. ^ Wilhelm Thilo: History of the Prussian Main Bible Society from 1814 to 1864, p. 293
  3. ↑ a b c d e f New Nekrolog der Deutschen (literature)
  4. ↑ documents z. B. in Goethe: Poetry and Truth, "Strasbourg"
  5. ↑ Cotta: Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, 1799, p. 616
  6. ↑ Gravestonephotos.com
personal data
SURNAME Rosenstiel, Heinrich Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenstiel, Henry Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Rental home in Alsace
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1826
Place of death Paris