Karl Adolf von Lex

Carl Adolf Lex (also: Karl Adolf Lex , Adolf Lex , Karl Adolph von Lex and name variants; * September 17, 1804 in Nassau ; † September 10, 1883 in Wiesbaden ) was a German historian , publicist and secret cabinet councilor in the Kingdom of Hanover . He was the private secretary of King George V and was considered the "hand and eye" of his sovereign, behind which he, however, almost disappeared as his own personality.

Life

family

Karl Adolph von Lex was a member of the Lex family , whose members were in the service of the Principality of Nassau-Saarbrücken , the Principality or Duchy of Nassau and the Kingdom of Hanover.

Career

Born in 1804 during the so-called " French period " in Wiesbaden, attended Carl Adolph Lex in Weilburg the local grammar school before from 1822 in Goettingen the local Georg-August University , where on 12 November 1827 he as Dr. phil. PhD. From 1827 to 1838 he worked as a private lecturer in Göttingen. During this time he worked, among other things, from 1827 to 1831 on the yearbooks of history and statecraft founded by the historian Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz .

At times parallel to his work in Göttingen, Lex worked from 1832 until the first year of the German Revolution in 1848 as editor of the Hannoversche Zeitung

After King George V of Hanover took office in 1851, Carl Adolph Lex was appointed royal councilor in the same year , and around five years later in 1856 he was promoted to the state council of Hanover . Finally, in 1866 - due to the consequences of the Battle of Langensalza, it was also the last year of the Kingdom of Hanover - Georg V. appointed Lex as a secret cabinet councilor.

Fonts

• Carl Adolf Lex: Vacation letters from Paris. The Secret Cabinet Councilor Dr. Lex writes to King Georg (= Welfenschriften , booklet 47), 32 z. T. illustrated pages, ed. by Carz Hummel, Wedemark: Hummel, 2010
• Adolf Lex: With King Georg to Langensalza. Diary notes (= Welfenschriften , Issue 52), 24 pages, illustrated, ed. and commented by Gisela Hummel, Wedemark: Carz and Gisela Hummel, 2011

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Vol. 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 554

Archival material

Archival materials on Karl Adolph von Lex and his family can be found, for example

• as deposit family archive Lex in the state archive Baden-Württemberg , department main state archive Stuttgart , signature P 3 , therein documents regarding
  • Appointments, salaries, accession to the throne of King George V of Hanover, medals, correspondence, especially with members of the Guelph , poems by Karl Adolph Lex, material about a trip to London in 1853, asset management

Web links

• Lex family archive in the German Digital Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Deviating from this, the dates of life "[...] 1803–83" are given, compare Geoffrey Malden Willis (arrangement): Hanover's fateful year 1866 in the correspondence between King George V and Queen Marie (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 25) (= Lower Saxony and Prussia , Issue 7), Hildesheim: Lax, 1966, p. IX
2. ↑ Deviating from this, the German National Library (see under the GND number) names the year 1828 as the beginning of Lex's studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lex, Karl Adolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on April 27, 2011, last accessed on April 29, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ Geoffrey Malden Willis (arrangement): Hanover's fateful year 1866 in the correspondence between King George V and Queen Marie (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 25) (= Lower Saxony and Prussia , volume 7), Hildesheim: Lax , 1966, p. IX
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Compare the information from the German Digital Library
5. ↑ Georg Heinrich Oesterley : History of the University of Göttingen in the period from 1820 to its first Säcularfeier in 1837 (= attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg-August University of Göttingen , vol. 4), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1838, p. 400; online through google books
6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Georg V, King of Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 210.