Heinrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt

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Heinrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt, portrayed by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in 1831

Count Heinrich Carl Wilhelm Vitzthum von Eckstädt (born March 26, 1770 in Dresden ; † October 11, 1837 there ) was a Saxon privy councilor, general director of the Dresden Art Academy and director of the court theater and the court orchestra .

Life

He came from the noble family Vitzthum von Eckstädt and was the fourth son of Ludwig Siegfried Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1716–1777) and his second wife, Auguste Erdmuthe von Ponickau and Pilgram (1738–1775) , who came from Ober-Oelsa . An older brother was Carl Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt .

Like many of his family members, he embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Wettins and was initially secret finance councilor at the Dresden court. In 1815 he was appointed royal Saxon court marshal. As a result, he was also director of the Dresden court orchestra , the Dresden court theater and the court theater in the trade fair city of Leipzig . He owes, among other things, the employment of Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 1816, for which he had vigorously campaigned.

Heinrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt was also general director of the arts and the art academies in Dresden and Leipzig until shortly before his death .

family

Family coat of arms (18th century)

On July 24, 1793 he married Friederike Wilhelmine Countess von Hopffgarten from Dresden (* December 24, 1767 - January 10, 1837), daughter of Count Georg Wilhelm von Hopffgarten . He outlived his wife by just under nine months.

Several children emerged from the marriage:

  • Ludwig Ernst (* May 14, 1794; † July 4, 1833 in Karlsbad)
  • Moritz Heinrich (born November 26, 1795)
  • Carl Gustav (born October 4, 1797)
  • Thecla (born September 25, 1799 in Dresden; † November 18, 1880), ⚭ November 19, 1817 with Emil Freiherr von Coburg
  • Georg Rudolph (January 27, 1801 - June 3, 1801)
  • Louise Annette (born May 7, 1802)
  • Angélique Therese (February 7, 1808 - January 18, 1876 in Altenburg)
  • Oswald Lionel (born February 15, 1809; September 30, 1883 in Coburg), ⚭ September 9, 1845 with Christiane Freiin von Waldenfels (1828–1898)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe (status of the document from December 16, 2017.)
  2. ^ A b Hugo Schramm-Macdonald : Moniteur des Dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques . Ed .: Édouard-Marie Oettinger . 5th volume. Oettinger, Dresden 1868, p.  160 ( online in the Google book search - there with a different month of birth (May instead of March).).
  3. ^ Compare Max Maria von Weber : Wilhelm Sutor , correspondence between Heinrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt and Carl Maria von Weber in Max Maria von Weber: Carl Maria von Weber , Leipzig: Ernst Keil, 1864 (Volume 1), 1866 (Vol. 2/3 ), P. 544; Digitized via Zeno.org
  4. ^ Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des Dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques . Ed .: Édouard-Marie Oettinger. 3rd volume. Oettinger, Dresden 1867, p. 6 ( online in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt (ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 11th year. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1835, p. 482 ( online in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ a b c d Genealogical Reich and State Handbook for the year 1803 . Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1803, p.  734 ( online in Google book search).
  7. ↑ The Baron von Coburg. In: Historical research by Roland Geiger. Retrieved on August 3, 2016 (there with wrong year of birth 1797 instead of 1799.).
  8. ^ Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel, Sigrid Countess von Strachwitz: Europe in Portraits: Drawings by Wilhelm Hensel, 1794–1861 . Volume 2: M-Z. Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7861-1994-5 , pp. 247 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . CA Starke, 1981, p.  475 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Heinrich Carl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, general director of the art academy, royal Saxon secret council and court marshal
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1837
Place of death Dresden