Johann Conrad von Bentheim

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Johann Conrad von Bentheim (* 1685 , baptized on July 24, 1685 in Nassau (Lahn) ; † 1738 ) was a German court official.

Life

Bentheim was baptized on July 24, 1685 in Nassau. He was court and government councilor of Margrave Karl zu Brandenburg-Schwedt and councilor of the Order of St. John .

Bentheim wrote his autobiography , which was still unusual in its time and therefore still attracts attention today.

The funeral sermon was held in 1738 by Johann Hermann Gronau , then an Evangelical Reformed preacher in the Jerusalem Church in Berlin , previously court preacher to Margravine Philipp until 1732 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Sparn: Who is writing my life story? Biography, autobiography, hagiography and their origins , page 96, Gerd Mohn publishing house, Gütersloh 1990, ISBN 3579002732 and ISBN 9783579002736
  2. ↑ Rudolf Lenz: Catalog of selected funeral sermons from the former Breslau City Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka Wrocławiu), page 7, Schwarz-Verlag, 1986 (= Marburger Personalschriften-Forschungen , Volume 8) ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Bentheim, Johann Conrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official
DATE OF BIRTH baptized July 24, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassau (Lahn)
DATE OF DEATH 1738