Josias of Torment (Provost, 1742)

Josias of Qualen (1742-1819) with his medals

Josias von Qualen (born April 20, 1742 in Borghorst , † October 29, 1819 in Itzehoe ) was Lord of Damp , Bitter of Itzehoe, secret conference council, provost of Uetersen , holder of the Order of St. Anne , the Order of Dannebrog and of the Elephant Order .

Life

He came from the influential noble family von Qualen , his parents were Josias von Qualen (1705–1775) and Elizabeth (née Blome) (1717–1783). He was the first of four children and was married to Friederike geb. von Rumohr , a daughter of Henning Benedikt von Rumohr . From this marriage came the children Josias († * 1775) and Henning Bendix (1777-1853).

Von Qualen was taught from 1749 to 1752 by Johann Bernhard Basedow , who submitted his experiences from the upbringing of the young Qualen on the one hand as a disputation to obtain the master's degree and on the other hand in 1752 in Hamburg under the title Message in how far the said method was actually practiced, and published what she worked . From 1761 to 1763 Qualen studied law in Utrecht and then worked for two years at the University of Leipzig , where he enjoyed the special affection of the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , with whom Basedow had studied. After his return in 1767 he became a member of the district court and district administrator in the service of the grand duke. In 1769 he accompanied the 15-year-old Prince Peter Friedrich Wilhelm (Oldenburg) on his cavalier tour via Strasbourg , Paris and Brussels to London , with Johann Gottfried Herder as a retinue as far as Strasbourg. After his return, Qualen stayed at the Eutinian court until 1773, but then followed the Bishop of Eutin as a grand ducal conference councilor to Oldenburg. In 1783 he inherited the Borghorst estate from his mother, which he sold again to Jürgen Ahlefeldt in 1800. In 1794 he acquired the Damp estate but lived in Hamburg from 1808 . On September 16, 1809 he was elected provost of the Uetersen monastery and a short time later he was elected royal Danish secret conference councilor. In 1812/1813 he was a member of the Provisional Administrative Commission for Holstein and in 1816 was appointed a member of the permanent constitutional commission in Copenhagen . In October 1818, a year before his death, Agen due to old age resigned from his offices.

medal

• Order of St. Anne 1st class 1777
• Grand Cross of the Dannebrogden around 1810
• Dannebrogsmänner Medal of Honor 1815
• Elephant Order 1817

Portraits

• Friedrich Carl Gröger , portrait of Josias von Qualen (1810), hangs in the provost house in Uetersen

literature

• Doris Meyn: List of provosts and priories of the Uetersen monastery up to the end of the 17th century. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Vol. 101, 1976, pp. 73-116, ( digitized version ).
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The monastery at the Uetersten End. A small guide through the historic park of the former Cistercian monastery and later aristocratic women's monastery Uetersen. Heydorn, Uetersen 2008, ISBN 978-3-934816-04-6 .
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: From the Cistercian monastery to the aristocratic women's monastery in Uetersen in Holstein. From eight centuries. = Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. With Cistercian women and noble nuns through eight centuries. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02813-7 .
• Hans-Hellmuth Qualen : Those of Qualen. History of a noble family from Schleswig-Holstein. Mühlau, Kiel 1987, ISBN 3-87559-055-4 , pp. 129-133.

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter zu Rantzau	Probst of Uetersen Monastery 1809–1818	Conrad Christoph von Ahlefeldt