Karl August von Luxburg

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Count Karl August Emil von Luxburg (born March 25, 1782 ; † September 1, 1849 in Mannheim ) was a German theater maker and director of the Mannheim National Theater .

Life

Karl August was the son of Johann Friedrich Graf von Luxburg , who was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1790, and Maria Freiin Vogt von Hunolstein .

Karl August was a royal Bavarian major à la suite , later envoy of the Baden ruling house in France and from 1821 to 1836 director of the Mannheim National Theater.

Karl August von Luxburg married the widowed Éléonore Denuelle on April 25, 1814 in Seckenheim . For her this was her third marriage; the couple had no male offspring. Around 1805 Éléonore was the mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and in 1806 had the son Léon Denuelle , whom Karl August adopted with the marriage of Éléonore.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Twenty-seventh year, 1849. Second part. Bernh. Friedr. Voigt, Weimar 1851, p. 1286 .
  2. ^ Ferdinand Strobl von Ravelsberg: Metternich und seine Zeit , 1907, volume 2, page 430 ( excerpt )
  3. ^ Bourg, Edme Theodore (Seint-Ddme): Liaisons and gallantries of the kings of France . tape 2 . Schneeberg 1830, p. 348 ff .