Joaquim from Oriola
Joaquim von Oriola (as Joaquim José Lobo da Silveira ; born May 17, 1772 in Alvito ; died April 29, 1846 in Reuden , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a Portuguese diplomat.
Life
Joaquim José Lobo da Silveira came from the Portuguese high nobility. His family held the title of baron of Alvito since 1475, the title of Count of Oriola since 1653 and the title of Margrave of Alvito since 1776 . Lobo served as governor in the Portuguese viceroyalty of Brazil for a time. During the Napoleonic Wars he was deployed as an envoy in Stockholm in 1809 . Lobo represented Portuguese interests at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 alongside Foreign Minister António de Saldanha da Gama . In Vienna on January 22, 1815, he was one of the signatories of a Portuguese-British agreement that prohibited the Portuguese from the slave trade . Lobo became the Portuguese ambassador to the Prussian court, then allowed himself to be naturalized in Prussia and received the patent for the Prussian count status from the Prussian king on June 6, 1822 . After King Miguel I abdicated , Joaquim resigned from the Portuguese diplomatic service in 1834 and stayed in the Prussian capital. He received the title of a Prussian Real Secret Council and with the acquisition of the Reuden manor a "Lord on Reuden". In 1805 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Thus he became the founder of the Prussian Counts of Oriola .
family
Lobo da Silveira had been married to Sophia Amalie Murray (1787–1862) since 1807, daughter of the Swedish biologist Johan Andreas Murray , who was descended from the Scottish clan Murray and who had worked at the University of Göttingen. Among her children were:
- Fernando (born November 19, 1807 - † January 13, 1842)
- Eduard (born April 20, 1809; † October 20, 1862), Prussian lieutenant general ⚭ Maximiliane von Arnim (1818-1894)
- Alphonse Heinrich (June 17, 1812 - June 3, 1863) Prussian diplomat.
- Deodat Joseph (born June 14, 1820 - March 1, 1873) ⚭ November 10, 1852 Countess Sophie zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (* September 21, 1827 - April 30, 1893)
- Luise (* May 6, 1824 - December 8, 1899) lady-in-waiting of the Empress Augusta
- Mathilde (born February 3, 1827; † May 30, 1889) ⚭ Karl von Werther (born January 31, 1809; † February 8, 1894), German diplomat, son of Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther
literature
- Oriola, Lobo da Silveira. In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, Voigt, Leipzig 1865, p. 613 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Silveira, J. Lobo da (Joaquim Lobo) 1772–1846 in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses , Volume 8, Gotha 1853, p. 513 f.
- ↑ Barbara Möller, Marc Reichwein: The first party of modern diplomacy , in: Literary World , December 20, 2014, p. 4 f.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 154.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oriola, Joaquim from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silveira, Joaquim José Lobo da (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alvito |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1846 |
| Place of death | Regrets |