Johann Georg Rist

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Johann Georg Rist around 1810

Johann Georg Rist (born November 23, 1775 in Niendorf near Altona , † February 5, 1847 in Schleswig ) was a Holstein- born writer, Danish diplomat and statesman in the first half of the 19th century. He was married to Emilie Hanbury, the daughter of the English merchant and consul in Hamburg, William Hanbury.

Life

Johann Georg Rist was the son of the preacher Johann Christoph Friedrich Rist at the then still Holstein Niendorfer Marktkirche and a direct descendant of the poet Johann Rist . He received private lessons from his father and only attended the Johanneum in Hamburg for one school year in 1794 . He then studied law at the University of Jena and from 1796 at the University of Kiel . During a visit to Copenhagen in 1797, the Danish finance and trade minister, Count Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann , became acquainted with him and was his private secretary until 1801. He then joined the Danish diplomatic service, initially as Secretary of the Legation in Saint Petersburg . In 1802 he was transferred to Madrid and was there in 1804 Chargé d'affaires . As such, he moved to the British court in London in 1806 . The complicated diplomatic entanglements surrounding the attack by the British navy on Copenhagen (1807) occurred during his time in London . He was then personally accused of not having foreseen the events. In 1808 he was probably appointed chargé d'affaires of Denmark in the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The confusion of the French era in Hamburg forced him to seek his release in 1813. He first settled in Hadersleben . In 1814 he became a member of the commission for the repossession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein with its seat in Kiel and also royal Danish commissioner for the liquidation business in Paris. In 1815 he returned to Hamburg and in 1828 moved to Altona in Holstein. In 1834 he became the first councilor of the Schleswig-Holstein government in Schleswig , of which he was a member until 1846. In 1836 he became commander of the Dannebrog Order and Dannebrogsmann. When Ludwig Nicolaus von Scheele entered this government, who was a generally unpopular representative of the concept of the state as a whole , he fell out of favor with five other members of the government and was dismissed.

Works

  • The blind minstrel (1798) in: Mnemosyne (1799)
  • Historical memorandum on the relationship between Denmark and Hamburg in 1813
  • Required remarks on Mr Lawätz's report and expert opinion on the poor
  • as a mediating reply to Uwe Jens Lornsen : A word about the compatriots in Holstein and Schleswig by JR Kgl. Deaf and Mute Inst., Schleswig 1831
  • G. Poel (Ed.): Memoirs , 1. – 3. Theil, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1880–1888.
    • 1st part ( online ), ( SUB Hamburg ).
    • 2nd part, ( online ), ( SUB Hamburg ).
    • Third part, appendix: 1. Some news of the life of the deceased budget councilor, bailiff Compe ; 2. Allusions and memories of JE v. Berger's life ; 3. Schönborn and his contemporaries and twelve facsimiles , ( online ), ( SUB Hamburg ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst , 1855, p. 135

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personal data
SURNAME Rist, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, Danish diplomat and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Niendorf
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1847
Place of death Schleswig