Karl Friedrich Albrecht Finck von Finckenstein
Karl Friedrich Albrecht, Count Finck von Finckenstein (born December 17, 1772 in Berlin , † August 29, 1811 in Ziebingen ) was a Prussian diplomat.
Life
Karl Friedrich Albrecht Finck von Finckenstein was the son of Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein and his wife Albertine, born. from Schönburg-Glauchau.
After training as a Legation Councilor , he was a member of the legation at the Rastatt Congress in 1797/1798 .
Then he came to the Prussian embassy in Vienna and was appointed envoy in 1807. In 1810 he was dismissed from the envoy post at Napoleon's request after a telegram from him to his king, in which he had called for war against Napoleon, had been intercepted. In May 1811 he returned to his estate. While he was waiting there for his appointment as envoy to the Saxon court in Dresden , he suddenly and unexpectedly died of typhus .
family
He had an intimate love affair with Rahel Levin . He later married Rosa Marquise de Mello e Carvalho (* 1778; † March 16, 1841).
literature
- Günter de Bruyn : The Finckensteins. A family in the service of Prussia. btb-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-442-73227-1 , pp. 118-164.
- Carola Stern : The text of my heart: The life of Rahel Varnhagen . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-06289-1 .
- Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . 1st department, 5th volume, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1851, p. 238 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ C. Stern: The text of my heart: The life of Rahel Varnhagen , p. 63 f.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Finck von Finckenstein, Karl Friedrich Albrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finckenstein, Karl Friedrich Albrecht, Count Finck von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1811 |
| Place of death | Ziebingen |