Jakob Friedrich von Bielfeld

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Jakob Friedrich Bielfeld, from 1748 Jakob Friedrich Freiherr von Bielfeld (wrongly also Bielefeld , born March 31, 1717 (not 1711) in Hamburg , † April 5, 1770 in Altenburg ) was a German Freemason as well as a political and fiction writer .

Jacob Friedrich Freiherr von Bielfeld 1717–1770

Life

Jakob Friedrich Bielfeld studied at the University of Leiden from 1732 and toured the Netherlands, France and England in 1735. On December 14, 1737, he was accepted as a member of the oldest documented German Masonic lodge, Société des Acceptés Macons Libres de la Ville d'Hambourg , and in 1738, as a member of the delegation of this lodge in Braunschweig, he met the then Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia when he was accepted as a Freemason. In 1739 he followed the Crown Prince to Rheinsberg . After Frederick II ascended the throne in 1740, Bielfeld went to Hanover and London as legation secretary , became a legation councilor in Berlin in 1741 , honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1744 , governor of Prince August Ferdinand in 1745 , curator of all Prussian universities and director of the Berlin Charité in 1747 . On April 23, 1748 he was raised to the rank of baron and appointed to the Privy Council . After fifteen years of service, Jakob Friedrich von Bielfeld left the Prussian civil service in 1755 to retire to his estates in the Duchy of Altenburg . In September 1757 he had to flee from there to Hamburg in the course of the Seven Years' War , from where he could not return until 1763 after the Treaty of Hubertusburg .

After differences with various lodge members about the manner of settling the travel expenses incurred in Braunschweig on the night of August 14-15, 1738 when the Crown Prince of Prussia, previously referred to as "Illustre Inconnu", was accepted into the Hamburg lodge (amount in dispute: " 438 Mark Courant ”), he resigned from the lodge with Georg Wilhelm Ludwig von Oberg, Peter Carpser and Peter Stüven. On November 10 In 1740 he joined the Prussian Freemasons - Loge "Aux trois Globes", the later Grand National Mother Lodge "The Three Globes" (GNML 3WK) at. On March 19, 1741, at the invitation of the English grand lodge, he took part in its convention as a representative of this lodge , which in fact led to the recognition of the GNML 3WK by the English grand lodge.

His first wife was Dorothea Juliane von Reich in 1748 . After her death, he married again. His second wife was Dorothea Christiane Frederike von Boden (December 18, 1742 - October 1, 1781), the daughter of Minister Friedrich August von Boden (1708–1780). When he met her, she was governess of Prince Ferdinand's wife.

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Institutions politiques , 1762

Bielfeld wrote his writings almost exclusively in French. Probably best known is his two-volume political science textbook Institutions politiques (1760, revised 1767), for which a third volume appeared posthumously after his death in 1772. Joachim Georg Darjes wrote an introduction to this work, which was translated into Italian, Russian and German while he was still alive .

His Lettres familières et autres (2 volumes, 1763, German 1765) contain interesting insights into the history of the European courts at this time, especially that of the Prussian court, as well as Bielfeld's living conditions . Bielfeld's works also include various comedies, mostly premiered in Berlin . In the last years of his life, Bielfeld published a weekly called Der Eremit in German (Leipzig 1767-69), the first volumes of which were translated into French.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Jakob Friedrich Freiherr von Bielfeld. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Franz August v. Etzel : History of the Great National Mother Lodge of the Prussian States named for the three globes , Berlin 1867, Digitized
  3. ↑ Moniteur des dates, p.91, [1]
  4. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Joseph Fischbach : Historical political, geographic, statistical and military contributions, concerning the royal Prussian and neighboring states , Volume 2, p. 572, digitized
  5. ^ Karl Heinrich Siegfried Rödenbeck : Contributions to the enrichment and explanation of the life descriptions , Volume 2 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Bielfeld, Jakob Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bielefeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Freemason and writer of political and fictional literature
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1770
Place of death Altenburg