Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein

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Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein

Johann Ludwig Graf von Kuefstein , also Khueffsteiner (born June 11, 1582, probably at Greillenstein Castle , Lower Austria ; † September 27, 1656 in Linz ) was a diplomat and translator of novels during the Baroque period. From 1630 until his death he was governor of Upper Austria . He is occasionally confused with Georg Adam Freiherr von Kuefstein (1605–1656), called "The Art Lover" in the Fruitful Society . Johann Ludwig was never a member.

biography

Hans Ludwig von Kuefstein at the age of 21 (1604)

He comes from the old noble family Kuefstein from Lower Austria , who like a large part of the Upper and Lower Austrian landed nobility were Protestant. Trained by private court masters, he followed his older brothers Lorenz and Wilhelm first to Prague (1590–1593) and then to Jena, where he matriculated at the university there at the age of twelve. His studies took him to Italy, where he acquired further knowledge from 1600 to 1601 at the universities of Padua , Bologna and Siena . After returning home, he stayed for a short time at the university in Prague. In 1603 he made a trip to Spain. Despite the Counter-Reformation persecution of his co-religionists, he represented their interests as a Protestant and was always welcome at court. When it came time to reach an armistice agreement with the Sultan and time was short, he was sent to Constantinople as ambassador . This commission overtook him only a few weeks after his conversion to the Catholic faith (on September 27, 1627 he received communion in public). After a personal audience with Emperor Ferdinand II and his wife and the assurance that he would look after his family in the event of failure (his still young wife was heavily pregnant), he agreed and finally left Austria in July 1628. He reached a 30-year truce with Sultan Murad IV and thanked the Mother of God for the safe return (in December 1629), who, according to his personal reports, “must always have had a protective hand over him”.

In recognition of his services, he was appointed governor of Upper Austria in 1630 as successor to Adam von Herberstorff . He made a special contribution in the Upper Austrian Peasant Wars, where he tried very hard to find a peaceful solution, which earned him great popularity among the population. Promoted to the secret council in 1630 , he was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1634. Kuefstein died richly wealthy in Linz in 1656 and was buried here in the Minorite Church.

Hans Ludwig von Kuefstein was married to Maria Grabner von Rosenburg (1589–1623), daughter of Sebastian II. Grabner zu Rosenburg , and his second marriage to Susanna Eleonora von Stubenberg (1602–1658). The children of Gottlieb, Gotthilf, Anna Dorothea, Eleonora, Constantia, Susanna Maria, Theresia, Lobgott (1632–1680), Ehrgott, Gottrau, Preisgott, Diengott, Gottwill, Johanna Ludwiga and Hilfgott (1643–1713) came from the second marriage. On July 25, 1648 von Kuefstein married his underage daughter Susanna Maria against her will with the 57-year-old Johann von Werth .

Kuefstein's literary work consists of translations from the Spanish of Montemayor 's shepherd novel Diana (1619, published several times and revised by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer in 1646 ) and Diego de San Pedro's romance novel Gefängnüss der Lieb ( Carcel de Amor , 1492), mainly of six diaries in whom he reports on his diplomatic missions. They have not yet been printed. An unprinted translation of Boccaccio's Fiammetta was lost, and a selection translation of Seneca's letters ( Der Christian Seneca ) appeared posthumously in 1670.

Works

Translations

  • Jorge de Montemayor : The beautiful Diana in love translated into German from the Hispanic language . Linz 1619. ( Kaspar von Barth's Latin version is based on this German text, not the Spanish original)
  • Jorge de Montemayor: Diana ... in two parts ... Germanized ... Anjetzo but with the Lord CG Polo ... third part increased ... by GPH [Georg Philipp Harsdörffer] . Nuremberg 1646 (reprint: Darmstadt 1971).
  • Diego de San Pedro : Carcell de Amor or Prisoners of Love . Leipzig 1625 (reprint: Ed. Gerhart Hoffmeister. Bern 1976).
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca : The Christian Seneca, that's Christian virtues, from which epistles ... translated into German . Frankfurt / M. 1670. (selection)

Diaries

  • Linz Diarium (1619)
  • Dutch Diary (1619, background is a planned delegation to Brussels, which did not take place)
  • Nuremberg Diarium (1619)
  • Horner Diarium (1620)
  • Retzer Diarium (1620)
  • Turkish diary (1627–1629)

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Johann Ludwig Reichsgraf von Kuefstein", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 4, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 2429–34. ISBN 3-7772-9012-2 .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Graf Kuefstein: Studies on family history. Volume 3. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1915, p. 241
  2. ^ Karl Graf Kuefstein: Studies on family history. Volume 2. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1911, p. 319
  3. ^ Karl Graf Kuefstein: Studies on family history. Volume 3. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1915, p. 280 f.
  4. ↑ http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/wienerhof/wienerhof2/datenblaetter/kuefstein_hl1.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.benatky.cz/omeste/historie/jan_z_werthu.php
predecessor Office successor
Board of three consisting of the oldest district administrator, lawyer and vice cathedral (transition),
before that Adam Graf von Herberstorff 		Imperial and Royal Governor of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns
1629–1656 		??
personal data
SURNAME Kuefstein, Johann Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuefstein, Johann Ludwig Freiherr von (full name); Khueffsteiner, Johann Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Diplomat and novelist translator of the Baroque period, governor of Upper Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1582 or 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Greillenstein Castle , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1656
Place of death Linz