Johann Hektor von Klettenberg
Johann Hektor von Klettenberg (* 1684 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 1, 1720 at the Königstein Fortress ) was a German alchemist .
Klettenberg came from a respected Frankfurt family and was a baron. He had to flee from Frankfurt in 1707 after a duel in which another nobleman was killed. After that he lived as an impostor who claimed to be able to make gold, and appeared at the court of Saxe-Weimar as Baron von Wildeck, but was neither a baron nor an officer himself. After the unmasking, he had to flee Weimar and went to the court of August the Strong , to whom he also promised to make gold and received large sums. Moreover, the king made him the District Chief of Senftenberg . When the king's debts rose to 24,000 thalers in 1715, with no results available, the king had him incarcerated in Hohnstein . He was imprisoned there for two years and from March 18 at the Königstein Fortress . After two attempts to escape and an extradition request from Frankfurt because of the murder of the opposing duelist, he was beheaded in 1720. A memorial stone has been preserved at the place of execution on the king's nose.
His niece Susanne von Klettenberg had a pietistic circle in Frankfurt in which she studied alchemy with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among others .
A writing Alchymia denudata from 1716 cannot be ascribed to him with certainty.
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- ↑ Hans-Werner Schütt: In search of the philosopher's stone. The history of alchemy. Beck, 2000, p. 504.
- ↑ Hans-Werner Schütt: In search of the philosopher's stone. The history of alchemy. Beck, 2000, p. 504.
- ↑ CERL
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SURNAME | Klettenberg, Johann Hektor von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German alchemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1684 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1720 |
Place of death | Koenigstein |