Johann Friedrich von Luxburg
Baron Johann Friedrich von Luxburg , from 1790 Count von Luxburg (* June 25, 1748 ; † 1820 ) was the Count of the Palatinate of Zweibrücken and the Landgrave of Hesse and Darmstadt, the Privy Councilor and thief . He was the progenitor of the Counts of Luxburg .
Life
He came from a St. Gallen council family and was the son of the salt trade wealthy merchant Johannes Girtanner von Luxburg , general agent of the Lorraine salt works, who was first named after his estate in Luxburg Castle near Egnach on Lake Constance in 1776 as the Imperial Knight and three years later (1779) had been raised to the imperial baron status.
Luxburg was on 24 September 1790 in Munich by Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalz Bayern as imperial vicar in the imperial counts charged.
On March 7, 1780 in Homburg, he married Carolina Maria Dorothea Freiin Vogt von Hunolstein , daughter of the landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, privy councilor Friedrich von Hunolstein.
Children:
- Karl August (1782–1849), director of the Mannheim theater
- Friedrich (1783–1856), royal Bavarian State Councilor and envoy
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , 1885, volume 6, page 64 ( digitized version )
supporting documents
- ^ Walter Bohrer: Register for the Evangelical Reformed Church Book of the Parish Homburg 1748–1798 , Zweibrücken 1987, p. 61
Web links
- Marcel Mayer: Girtanner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Luxburg, Johann Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palatine of Zweibrücken and Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Privy Councilor and Thigh |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1748 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1820 |