Karl-Otto von der Malsburg

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Karl-Otto von der Malsburg (born September 21, 1790 in Marburg , † November 18, 1855 in Venice ) was a German officer , landowner and art patron .

Life

His father was the civil servant and officer Friedrich-Wilhelm von der Malsburg, his brother the diplomat, writer and translator Ernst von der Malsburg . His uncle, the diplomat, landowner and politician, Karl-Otto von der Malsburg (1741-1821) took care of the education.

He took part in the Napoleonic campaign to Russia, was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and retreated from the burning Moscow to Germany, from where he accompanied King Jerome von Westphalen on his escape.

In 1822 he married Marie Toussaint, from whom he soon divorced, in order to marry Henriette Freiin von Heintze in 1824.

The Musenhof Escheberg

As a supporter of the defeated French, his career as a Hessian officer came to an end. He retired to Gut Escheberg near Wolfhagen in North Hesse , which he inherited in 1824 and made a North Hessian Tusculum . As a patron he received August and Friedrich Schlegel , Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm , Louis Spohr , Moritz von Schwind and Heinrich Marschner, among others . Emanuel Geibel worked as a librarian at Gut Escheberg. Friedrich von Bodenstedt immortalized life on the Musenhof in his novel Das Herrenhaus im Eschenwalde .

death

Karl-Otto von der Malsburg died of typhus in 1855 while traveling in Venice.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ P. Heidelbach: German poets and artists in Escheberg. Marburg 1913, page 5.
  2. ↑ a b c d Heiner Wittekindt: Escheberg, meeting point for artists. In: Gerhard Selb (ed.): 1200 years Niederelsungen. Niederelsungen 1975, page 45.
  3. ^ August Straub : North Hesse. Nuremberg 1969, page 90.
personal data
SURNAME Malsburg, Karl-Otto von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, landowner and art patron
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1855
Place of death Venice