Heinrich von Huyssen
Heinrich Freiherr von Huyssen (born July 27, 1666 in Essen , † September 6, 1739 near Copenhagen ) was a German diplomat and advisor to Peter the Great .
Life
The son of a councilor and businessman attended high school in Dortmund . He then studied law at the Old University in Duisburg and at the University in Cologne , then Languages at the Francke Foundations in Halle and finally law and history at the University in Leipzig .
Extensive study trips followed until he entered the service of the Duke of Valdenza in Strasbourg in 1688. His dissertation followed in 1689. After a trip to Rome he continued his studies in law at the University in Vienna continued for a year. In 1691 and 1692 he was employed as a lecturer at the Francke Foundations. He then returned shortly to Essen, but went to Utrecht as a private teacher in 1693 . In 1695 he was briefly in Essen again, then went to work near Geneva as an asset manager. In 1699 he lived in Paris and then switched to the service of the Princess von Waldeck, for whom he also worked in Berlin. In 1700 he was court and councilor of the Prince of Waldeck. There he got to know the Saxon General von Flemming, for whom he worked as secretary until July 23, 1702.
Then he was in Russian service from 1702 . Until 1705 he was a lawyer and teacher of Alexei of Russia ; that year he went to Vienna as envoy. From 1707 he was the historiographer of Peter I. Among other things, he then wrote the laudation on the death of Peter the Great on February 8, 1725. From 1726 he was a councilor and real councilor of the war college, but was surprisingly dismissed in 1732 by Tsarina Anna . To spend his retirement in Germany, he set out on his return journey to Germany in 1739. He died on the voyage on the coast of Denmark off Copenhagen and was buried in Helsingør .
In 1710 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .
literature
- Erik Amburger : Huyssen, Heinrich Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 106 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Who was what Bacht, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1
- Werner Hartkopf, Gert Wangermann: Documents on the history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1700 to 1990 . (= Berlin Studies on the History of Science, Volume 1). Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86025-008-6
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huyssen, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huyssen, Heinrich Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and advisor to Peter the Great |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1739 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |