Josias of Torment (Provost, 1705)

Josias von Qualen (* December 8, 1705 ; † May 6, 1775 on Borghorst ) was lord of Behrensbrook, Rothenstein and Borghorst , privy councilor and provost of the Preetz monastery .

Life

Josias von Qualen was born to Hinrich von Qualen (1663–1707) and Magdalena von Buchwaldt (1670–1720) and is the younger brother of Henning von Qualen . He had been married to Elisabeth von Blome (1717–1783) since 1736 and had 14 children with her, 8 of whom died in childhood. One of his sons was Josias of Torment .

Together with his brother Henning, he studied in Halle in 1722, then became an Episcopal Chamberlain and in 1736 senior thief at the court of Adolf Friedrich , who became King of Sweden in 1751 . On February 18, 1736, Qualen had acquired Gut Borghorst by inheritance contract with his future father-in-law Wolf von Blome. On September 10, 1736 he was elected provost of the Preetz monastery "by majora". In 1742 he had the Borghorst manor house built today .

Towards the end of his tenure as provost, he had to settle a few arguments and finally resigned from this office, four years before his death, in 1771. In 1774 he successfully turned against the plans of the Danish Foreign Minister Andreas Peter von Bernstorff to enable the landowners who were not recipients to be accepted into the equestrian corps. In his book Herrenhäuser und Schlösser in Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Hirschfeld compared the role of Josias von Qualen with that of Saint-Simons at the court of Louis XIV .

See also: torments (noble family)

Fonts

• (anonymous): Description of an aristocratic estate in Holstein along with some considerations. sn, sl 1760.
• Reflection on the question to be determined in this fasting market in 1774: Whether a reception from different families to be carried out in the corps of the Schleswig-Holstein nobility is necessary or useful? In: Anton Friedrich Büsching (Hrsg.): Magazine for the new history and geography. Theil 9, 1775, pp. 569-584, ( digitized ).

art

• Balthasar Denner , bridal pictures of the married couple Qualen 1736, Gut Wulfshagen .
• Unknown, Spouses agony at an advanced age, Gut Damp .

literature

• Johann B. Mielck: Can the despiser of the revealed religion be virtuous or even do just one good act. Hamburg 1761.
• Peter Hirschfeld: Mansions and castles in Schleswig-Holstein. 3rd, improved edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1964, p. 116.
• Hans-Hellmuth Qualen : History of the family torments and of torments. Kiel 1978, pp. 111–128, (handwritten).