Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow

Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow , also Johann Adolph Friedrich von Gentzkow (born April 9, 1731 in Pomerania , † April 29, 1782 in Dewitz ) was a German writer and landowner on Dewitz.

Life

Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow was a younger son of the district administrator, stargardian vice-land marshal and landowner of Dewitz, Zernitz and Carnin, Ernst Ludwig von Gentzkow (born November 29, 1695 - † March 30, 1762), and his second wife Barbara von Klinckowström († 1737) from the Hövet family.

Gentzkow was born somewhere in Pomerania in 1731, studied law in Greifswald from 1749 and joined the ruling Duke Adolf Friedrich IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a chamberlain in 1754 . When he took over the management of the inherited Dewitz estate after the death of his father in 1762 and consequently retired from court service, he received the title of senior chamberlain. After a personal encounter, Thomas Nugent wrote about him: He “has the job of a chamberlain [...] He speaks English very well, which he only learned through his own diligence, because he has never been to England, by the way, he is only small of stature, well-educated and in good health. ” Gentzkow died in 1782 on his estate in Dewitz and was buried there on May 7th, 1782 with a“ standing speech ”( funeral sermon ).

Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow published poems and philosophical considerations. He was the father of the writer Johanna von Bültzingslöwen .

family

He married Maria Charlotte von Holstein from the Ballin family in Berlin on December 10, 1762 . The couple had eight children:

Charlotte Christiane Barbara Magdalena (* 1763)
Friedrich Theodor Ludwig (October 11, 1764 - January 24, 1836) ⚭ Charlotte Barbara Dorothea von Wolky (September 10, 1773 - March 29, 1847), daughter of Major General Friedrich Gideon von Wolky
Lothar (Karl) Ernst (Leopold) (1765–1809), landowner on Dewitz, District Administrator ⚭ Christine Marie Barnim von Maltzahn (* 1763)
NN , a stillborn son in 1767
Johanna (Sophie Beate Friederike Elisabeth) (* 1770) ⚭ 1796 (divorced or widowed around 1797) Friedrich Heinrich von Bültzingslöwen , Prussian captain
Georg Johann Christoph Viktor (1771–1771)
Marie Katharine Wilhelm Philippine (* 1773)
Carolina Bernhardina Henrietta (* 1774)

Works

Try in little poems. Leipzig 1758 ( digitized version )
Collection of mixed poems. 2 parts. Leipzig 1759–1761:

1st part: collection of mixed poems. Leipzig 1759 ( digitized version )

Part 2: Continued collection of mixed poems. Leipzig 1761 ( digitized version )

Reflections on the Purpose of Human Being. Bützow 1769. ( digitized version )
Odes and mixed poems. 2nd, expanded edition [of the 1759/61 edition]. Greifswald, 1771. ( digitized version )

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3193 .
Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 4. Leipzig 1804, p. 89
Sebastian Prüfer: Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow - Chamberlain, Chancellery, Squire and Poet in the old Mecklenburg-Strelitz. [Series of publications by the Regional Museum Neubrandenburg; 43] Neubrandenburg, 2015. ISBN 978-3-939779-23-0
Carl Schröder: Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburgers in beautiful literature. Süsserott, Berlin 1909, p. 147 f.

Individual evidence

^ That with Sebastian Prüfer ( Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow - chamberlain, chancellery, squire and poet in the old Mecklenburg-Strelitz. [Series of publications of the regional museum Neubrandenburg; 43] Neubrandenburg, 2015. ISBN 978-3-939779-23-0 ) mentioned several times Date of death (04/24/1782) is incorrect.
↑ The exact place of birth is unknown. It is believed that he could have been born on one of his father's Pomeranian estates (Zermitz or Karnin).
^ Thomas Nugent: Travels through Germany and especially through Mecklenburg. Neudr. D. Edition 1781/82. Schwerin 1998. ISBN 3-931185-22-2 [Register references: pp. 275ff., 438].
^ The author of the funeral sermon, of which no tradition has been known so far, was probably the responsible pastor Johann Gottfried Seydel (1735–1793).

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personal data
SURNAME	Gentzkow, Johann Adolf Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gentzkow, Johann Adolph Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1782
Place of death	Dewitz

[1] That with Sebastian Prüfer ( Johann Adolf Friedrich von Gentzkow - chamberlain, chancellery, squire and poet in the old Mecklenburg-Strelitz. [Series of publications of the regional museum Neubrandenburg; 43] Neubrandenburg, 2015. ISBN 978-3-939779-23-0 ) mentioned several times Date of death (04/24/1782) is incorrect.

[2] The exact place of birth is unknown. It is believed that he could have been born on one of his father's Pomeranian estates (Zermitz or Karnin).

[3] Thomas Nugent: Travels through Germany and especially through Mecklenburg. Neudr. D. Edition 1781/82. Schwerin 1998. ISBN 3-931185-22-2 [Register references: pp. 275ff., 438].

[4] The author of the funeral sermon, of which no tradition has been known so far, was probably the responsible pastor Johann Gottfried Seydel (1735–1793).