Johann Franz Anton von Olry

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Johann Franz Anton de Orly , from 1813 Knight von Olry (born March 3, 1769 in Andlau , Alsace , † February 27, 1863 in Strasbourg ), was a Bavarian diplomat of French origin.

biography

He was born as the son of Jean-François de Olry and his wife Thérèse. Scheck was born and grew up in a noble family with deep ties to the monarchy and the Catholic Church. The father was the royal French bailiff in Andlau. During the Napoleonic period he was justice of the peace and head of the archives of the Bas-Rhin department in Strasbourg.

Olry studied in Colmar and Strasbourg, most recently as a fellow student of the later statesman Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . As a declared opponent of the French Revolution , he fought voluntarily in the opposition royalist troop of General de Condé . Arrested while staying in Strasbourg, von Olry eventually had to flee to Switzerland.

In 1799, the refugee found a job in the Palatinate Foreign Ministry and was accepted into the Bavarian civil service. In 1801 he was appointed legation secretary at the Bavarian legation in Berlin , a little later he switched to the representation in Saint Petersburg , where he became friends with the philosopher Joseph de Maistre , who also mentions him in his memoirs, Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg . From 1806 Franz Anton von Olry represented the Kingdom of Bavaria in Saxony ( Dresden ), in 1807 he became Bavaria's Minister-Resident ( Ambassador ) in Switzerland ( Bern ). He stayed in this post for 20 years, where he independently built a network of conservative Catholic connections. He became a friend of the constitutional lawyer Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768-1854) and in 1820 played a decisive role in his conversion to the Catholic Church. In 1827 Olry was transferred to Turin , where he served as Bavarian Minister-Resident in the Kingdom of Sardinia until July 4, 1842 .

Franz Anton von Olry was unmarried. After his retirement he moved to live with his sister in Strasbourg. He later settled in Kientzheim , Alsace , where he became the center of a Catholic and aristocratic circle. At the old age of over 80, he still served as an altar server at the Holy Mass at the altar. Shortly before his death, he burned the memoirs he had written. Franz Anton von Olry had been in Strasbourg since 1861, suffered a stroke there on February 26, 1863 and died the following day, at the age of almost 94.

Honors

On February 25, 1813, King Max I Joseph of Bavaria awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and raised him to the knighthood of Bavaria. In 1836 he was the Privy been appointed and with date of 1 January 1839, he received from King Ludwig I , the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Michael . Pope Gregory XVI awarded him the Order of Christ with the big star, the highest honor of the Holy See .

literature

  • Josef Inauen: Focus on Switzerland: the southern German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria and the Confederation 1815-1840 , Volume 47 of: Religion, Politics, Society in Switzerland , 2008, ISBN 3727816384 , Paulusverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland, p. 82, footnote 256 ( scan from the source with biography ).
  • Heribert Raab: Johann Franz Anton von Olry and Karl Ludwig von Haller , in: Festschrift for Max Spindler on his 75th birthday , pp. 685–707, Munich 1969.
  • Franz Binder (editor): From the life of the knight von Olry , historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany , volume 52 (1863, 2nd volume), pp. 595–643 ( scan from the source ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for Alsatian Church History, Volume 12, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 1937, page 329 .
  2. ^ Daniel Peter: The Archives du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg; Origin and structure (1796-1870) . PDF document of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, page 3 of the text .
  3. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , year 1842, column 848 of the year .
  4. ↑ Jacques-Henry-Jules Suvigny: La Restauration convaincue d'hypocrisie, de mensonge et d'usurpation de complicité avec les souverains de la Sainte-Alliance ou preuves de l'existence du fils de Louis XVI. , Lyon, 1851, pages 89 and 119; Scans from the source .
  5. ↑ Franz Binder (editor): From the life of the knight von Olry , Historisch -politische Blätter für das Catholic Deutschland , Volume 52 (1863, 2nd Volume), page 642.
  6. ↑ Franz Binder (editor): From the life of the Ritter von Olry , Historical-Political Papers for Catholic Germany , Volume 52 (1863, 2nd Volume), page 643.
  7. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1813, column 686 of the year .
  8. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 1, Munich, January 10, 1839.
  9. ↑ Franz Binder (editor): From the life of the knight von Olry , historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany , Volume 52 (1863, 2nd volume), pp. 638-639.
personal data
SURNAME Olry, Johann Franz Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olry, Johann Franz Anton Ritter von (full name); Olry, Johann Franz Anton de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Andlau , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1863
Place of death Strasbourg