Jean-Louis Barbot de Luchet

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Jean-Pierre-Louis de La Roche du Maine, Marquis de Luchet (born January 13, 1740 in Saintes , † 1792 ) was a French cavalry officer , writer and journalist , theater director and librarian .

Life

Luchet was born on January 13, 1740 in Saintes, France, where he first embarked on a military career and was promoted to officer. After his military service, he tried his hand at entrepreneurship - although he was unsuccessful because in 1776 he had to flee from his creditors to Lausanne ; here he failed with the publication of a magazine.

Librarian activity in Kassel

Provided with a letter of recommendation from Voltaire , the urbane Marquis applied successfully to the court of the Francophile Landgrave Friedrich II (1720–1785) of Hesse-Kassel , where he initially concealed his noble origins. Luchet quickly gained the prince's affection and within a short time became director of the French theater, superintendent of the court orchestra and finally permanent secretary of the Princely Hessian Society of Antiquities . His contemporary Ernst Naumann called the Marquis the "most outstanding member" of society. Nevertheless, Luchet was accused from some quarters of having preferred Christian Gottlob Heyne's submission to that of Johann Gottfried Herder in a competition in 1777 and of having destroyed Herder's letter. In addition, Luchet is said to have been responsible for the short-term dismissal of Christian Kalkbrenner from the Landgrave's services.

Luchets appointment as library director also put him on the more senior Friedrich Christoph Schmincke , who in 1788 finally willy nilly submitted his resignation. One of the most prominent critics of Luchet was the publicist August Ludwig von Schlözer , who denounced the grievances in the Kassel library in his magazine Briefwechsel .

Before the library moved to the Museum Fridericianum (1779), the Marquis carried out the reorganization that Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder described as the "Revolution of the Cassel Library". Against the advice of the experienced librarians and disregarding the extensive cataloging that had already taken place , he introduced a “French system”, which, however, was difficult to apply to the book collections in Kassel. This system supposedly came from a compatriot who developed it for the reorganization of Count Clermont's library. While Strieder fills several pages with polemical corrections, the changes, according to Philipp Losch, "were probably not quite as bad as the extremely bitter old Hesse [= Strieder] thought".

However, Luchet had not taken into account that his cataloging system could largely not be applied to the Kassel library and caused great chaos. Nonetheless, Luchet was appointed to the Privy Council on August 14, 1783 and in the same year opened a French printer and bookshop in Kassel, which he wanted to turn into a kind of center of French literature in Germany. In the following year Luchet was appointed Vice President of the Commerz College and in 1785 the historiographer of Hesse.

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After the death of Frederick II , however, his successor Wilhelm I commissioned an investigative commission, which, in addition to Luchet's dismissal on February 10, 1786, also decided to seize his printing works and bookstore. After Luchet had satisfied his creditors, he left Kassel very early on April 3, 1786, to go to Berlin. Then Luchet came into the service of Prince Heinrich of Prussia , who in 1788 granted him a pension of 2000 thalers. According to Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , he worked there as a spy at the Prussian court with Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti , Count of Mirabeau . In the meantime, Wilhelm I instructed the experienced librarian Ernst Wilhelm Cuhn in Kassel to restore the library regulations. After Cuhn's death, Schmincke returned to the Kassel library and remained its director until his death in January 1795.

Fonts (selection)

  • Analysis raisonnée de la sagesse de Charron . Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1763. ( digitized )
  • Une seule faute. Ou les mémoires d'une demoiselle de qualite . Paris: 1788.
  • Memoires Pour Servir A L'Histoire De L'Année 1789 . Paris: Chez Lavillette 1790. (Digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 )
  • Essai sur la secte des Illuminés . Paris: 1789. ( digitized )
  • La galerie des dames françoises, pour servir de suite à la galerie des états-généraux, par le même auteur . Paris: 1790. ( Digitized from Volume 3 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl Bader: Lexicon of German Librarians in Main and Secondary Offices at Princes, States and Cities (=  Central Journal for Libraries: Supplement . No. 55 ). Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1925, p. 359 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: De Luchet (Jean Pierre Louis) . In: Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder (Ed.): Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers . tape 8 : Leu - Meur. Cramer, Barmeier, Kassel / Göttingen 1788, p. 415 ff .
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Naumann: Duncker Monument Winckelmanns . In: Elias Steinmeyer (Hrsg.): Anzeiger für Deutschen Alterthum and German literature . No. 9 . Weidmann, Berlin April 2, 1883.
  4. ^ Hermann Mendel: Kalkbrenner, Christian . In: Hermann Mendel (Hrsg.): Musical Conversations Lexicon. An encyclopedia of all musical sciences . tape 5 . Published by Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1875, p. 520 ( google.at ).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Georg Winter: Schmincke, Friedrich Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) . tape 32 , 1891, p. 33 f . ( deutsche-biographie.de ).
  6. ^ Philipp Losch: The State Library of Kassel 1580-1930 . In: Aloys Bömer, Georg Leyh, Walther Schultze (Hrsg.): Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen . tape 48 . Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig May 1931, p. 249 .
  7. ^ A b c d e Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: De Luchet (Jean Pierre Louis) . In: Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder (Ed.): Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers . tape 8 : Leu - Meur. Cramer, Barmeier, Kassel / Göttingen 1788, p. 432 f .
  8. ^ Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching: Mirabeau, Gabriel Honorius Riquetti . In: Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching (Ed.): Historical-literary handbook of famous and memorable people who died in the 18th century . tape 5 , First Division: Marschall-Micheli. Schwickert, Leipzig 1800, p. 29 ( google.at ).
personal data
SURNAME Luchet, Jean-Louis Barbot de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luchet, Jean-Pierre-Louis de La Roche du Maine Marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer, writer, journalist, theater director and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Saintes
DATE OF DEATH 1792