Henning Adam von Bassewitz

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Henning Adam von Bassewitz (born November 5 (also November 15) 1731 in Lühburg ; † December 17, 1770 ) was Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttelscher privy councilor , envoy and chief chamberlain and Ansbach-Bayreuth privy councilor.

Life

He came from the Wendish, today counts, line of the old Mecklenburg family Bassewitz . His parents were conference councilor Ludolph Friedrich von Bassewitz and Sibilla von Bassewitz, a daughter of Philipp Cuno von Bassewitz . His brothers were Philipp Cuno Christian von Bassewitz and Joachim Ludolf von Bassewitz . He was married to Conradine Luise von der Osten . He owned the Mecklenburg estates Duckwitz , Woltow, Kowalz and Repnitz . In 1746 he attended the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. In 1751 he became court squire in Schwerin . Karl I (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) later appointed him chamberlain . In 1752 he translated George Lillo's "Merchant of London" from English, and in 1753 Louis de Boissy's book "Le prix de silence" from French. In the same year he became "second lieutenant in the guard". In 1755 he was a co-signer of the Land Constitutional Constitutional Comparison in Mecklenburg. Under the pseudonym Gerdt von Cölln, a polemic against him appeared in 1768, "Der Freymuthige Edelmann in Mecklenburg", on which he wrote the counter-polemic, "Gerdt von Cölln to the author of the comments on the frankly noble man". From 1766 he held the position of "Reichstag Minister". He was buried in the envoy cemetery in Regensburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Goedeke, Herbert Jacob: Floor plan for the history of German poetry, register I-III . 2nd Edition. tape 18 . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 3-05-000432-0 , p. 81 .
  2. ^ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the imperial count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line. , 1859, p. 54.
  3. ^ Richard Daunicht: The emergence of the bourgeois tragedy in Germany, google books . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, p. 211 .
  4. ^ Richard Daunicht: The emergence of the bourgeois tragedy in Germany, google books . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, p. 211 .
  5. ^ Adolph Graf von Bassewitz: From the life of the imperial count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz with some news about the Bassewitz family of the Wendish line . 1859, p. 54 .
  6. ↑ Germany (Roman-German Empire) Reichstag (Ed.): New Reichs-Tags-Diarium, google books . tape 3 , 1771, pp. 110 .
  7. ^ Richard Daunicht: The emergence of the bourgeois tragedy in Germany, google books . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, p. 211 .
  8. ↑ James Boswell: Henning Adam von Bassewitz. "James Boswell Info", accessed February 25, 2019 .
  9. ^ Richard Daunicht: The emergence of the bourgeois tragedy in Germany, google books . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, p. 211 .
  10. ^ Augsburgische Ordinari Postzeitung von Staats-, schehrten, histor- u. economic news: 1770, google books . No. 307 , December 24, 1770.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Henning Adam from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttelsch privy councilor, envoy and chief chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Luehburg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1770