Heinrich Wilhelm Muzel

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Heinrich Wilhelm Muzell (born April 14, 1723 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1782 there ) was a German officer and councilor.

Life

Heinrich Wilhelm Muzell was a son of Friedrich Muzell and his wife Louise Hedwig von Stosch (1692–1748), a sister of Philipp von Stosch . The physician Friedrich Ludwig Hermann Muzel was his brother. Muzell first tried to make a military career in the Hacke regiment . When he did not succeed, he entered French service. From there he went to Florence in 1756 to his uncle, the antiquity collector Philipp von Stosch. After he had adopted him, the nephew took the name "Muzel-Stosch". From Italy, Muzel-Stosch traveled to England and Turkey. In 1757 he inherited his uncle's fortune. He got to know Johann Joachim Winckelmann , who until 1759 scientifically evaluated the antique collection on behalf of Muzels and published the results in Florence in 1760 under the title Description des pierres gravées de feu Monsieur le baron de Stosch . Around 1764 Muzel-Stosch sold his uncle's collection for 12,000 Reichstaler (after Rudolf Schwarze) and an annuity of 400 Reichstaler to Friedrich II . He was ennobled by the Prussian king as "Baron Stosch" and appointed royal councilor and supervisor of the royal art, antiques and medals cabinets. The collection sold by Friedrich became the basis of today's Berlin Collection of Antiquities .

Muzel-Stosch remained unmarried.

literature

  • Rudolf Schwarze:  Stosch, Philipp von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 462 f.
  • Thirty years at the court of Frederick the Great: from the diaries of Count Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich von Lehndorff, Chamberlain of Queen Elisabeth Christine von Prussen , edited by KE Schmidt-Lötzen, Gotha, Perthes, 1907, pp. 41–42.
  • W. Schartow: Frederick the Great's personal physician Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Hermann Muzel and his brother Baron Wilhelm Muzel-Stosch . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , 26, 1909, pp. 220–222.

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SURNAME Muzel, Heinrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muzel-Stosch, Heinrich Wilhelm; Muzell, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1782
Place of death Berlin