Johann Wilhelm Franz von Krohne

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Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr von Krohne (born May 13, 1738 in Heidelberg ; † August 2, 1787 in Berlin ) - nobleman and adventurer - was a war councilor in Mecklenburg-Strelitz , secret finance councilor in Poland, minister-resident in Hamburg and author of numerous books.

Life

In his eventful life, Baron von Krohne held numerous positions; Among other things, he was the Polish Real Privy Councilor and envoy of the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen to the Lower Saxony district . He was also the holder of the Grand Cross of the Brandenburg Red Eagle Order , but he is said to have bought this order through donations of money. He lived in Denmark for a long time , and the Danish Hereditary Prince Frederik supported him in various ways.

Freiherr von Krohne came from an old noble family in Lower Saxony . His father is said to have been captain of the Palatinate militia in Heidelberg . He was educated in the German-Hungarian college of the Jesuits and then entered the Augustinian monastery in Dalheim near Paderborn , from which he escaped, however, went to Braunschweig and converted there to the Lutheran faith.

There he married a Fraulein von Plotho , with whom he had two sons and a daughter. When his fortune was exhausted, he left his family and went to Berlin , where he appeared as a baron and won the favor of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt . The latter first sent him to his sister at the court in Köpenick and then employed him - "after he had been chased away there" - at the chamber in Schwedt . Handel, whom he had drawn here, prompted the margrave to recommend him to Strelitz , where he was appointed to the council of war . But baron von Krohne does not hold up here either. In 1768 he went to Berlin, then to Königsberg , from there to Russia and back to Berlin. He is appointed by the King of Poland as a secret finance councilor and is entrusted with the management of the royal property. But here too he was released, but fell on his feet again and was sent to Hamburg by the Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen as Minister- Resident. He loses this post again, this time because of an argument with another nobleman. Then Freiherr von Krohne went to Copenhagen . There he was imprisoned at Christiansø fortress in 1778 because he did not obey a cabinet order from the Danish king . When he was released is unknown, at least he lived in Synderhøl in Jutland from 1780 and in Berlin again from 1786. There he died a year later at the age of 50.

Works

Today, Krohne is mainly known to posterity as the author of an aristocratic lexicon with the long title “General Teutsches Adels-Lexicon in it of the old and new Count, Baron and noble families, their antiquity, origins, distributions in different houses, relatives and those that arose from them most famous people is traded ” . It deals mainly with families of the letter nobility, but had only grown to the second volume (letter M) when Krohne died.

Volume 1, Th. 1: A - F. Lübeck: Fuchs 1774. ( Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library )
Volume 1, Th. 2: G - M. Hamburg: Harmsen 1776. ( digitized copy of the Bavarian State Library )

A list of his numerous other publications includes:

  • Uwazi Ty godnie , Warszawa 1768
  • Prophecy of the likely fulfillment of the old proverb: Tandem bona caussa triumphat (a deduction about the divorce of Queen Karoline Mathilde of Denmark ), 1773
  • On the causes of the cracking eydbrüchigkeit and the means of remedying it. Lübeck 1774
  • Suggestions such as scholarship and science in the Latin schools in the Kingdom of Denmark could best be helped
  • The human love associated with justice towards evildoers in embarrassing cases , Lübeck 1776
  • Poëma in legem indigenatus a Christiano VII. Danor. et Normanorum rege latam , 1776
  • Denmark's constant independence, or thorough proof that Denmark has never been subservient to the German Empire or been subject to interest [..] , Hamburg 1777
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Well-intentioned Proposals by a Stranger to the Danish Nation for Acceptance and Improvement of the Land , 1784
  • Plea and plea for pity against a house thief and murder burner , Berlin 1786
  • Something about the reprinting of the books, whether it be thief or legal acquisition. Berlin 1786
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Legal catechism, drafted as applied to the Prussian laws , Berlin 1786
    • French edition: Catéchisme du Droit projetté et appliqué aux lois Prussiennes. 1786

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present day , prepared on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History by Dr. ph. Hans Schröder (...), continued by FA Cropp and Dr. ph. CR W Klose, Hamburg 1866.
  2. ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Leipzig 1808

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personal data
SURNAME Krohne, Johann Wilhelm Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krohne, Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1787
Place of death Berlin