Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt

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Baron Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt (actually Alexander von Arnswaldt ; born September 11, 1768 in Celle ; † April 27, 1845 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , Minister of State of the Kingdom of Hanover , curator of the Georg August University in Göttingen and a science politician.

Life

Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt comes from the Thuringian noble family von Arnswaldt and was the eldest son of the consistorial president and first curator of the Göttingen University Christian Ludwig August von Arnswaldt (1733-1815). From 1785 to 1788 he studied law at the University of Göttingen . Karl Friedrich von Arnswaldt quickly rose to the top of the Hanoverian civil service in the wake of his father. At the annexation of Hanover in 1803 he was a Privy Councilor and abstained from any activity for the Kingdom of Westphalia during the French era . After the liberation in 1814, he supported his father as a curator at Göttingen University. After his father's death in 1815, he first became Minister of State of the reborn Kingdom of Hanover and second curator of the state university. He was later also appointed first curator. He held the office of Minister of State until 1828. However, he continued to hold the office of curator. He was active in a heyday of the university's prestige and, together with Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt, determined the Hanoverian science policy beyond the revolution of 1831 in Göttingen. He could not prevent the abrupt end of this era through the expulsion of the Göttingen Seven (1837) and the subsequent decline. He then retired at the beginning of 1838.

Double grave in the form of two sarcophagi in the garden cemetery

Freiherr von Arnswaldt was a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . His son was the diplomat and theological writer August von Arnswaldt .

Arnswaldt's grave can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover.

Arnswaldtstrasse

The Arnswaldtstrasse, which was laid out in Hanover's Mitte district in 1888 and leads from Schiffgraben to Dieterichstrasse, was named according to the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter from 1914 "after the former von Arnswaldt property over which it leads".

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : von Arnswaldt (Karl Friedrich Alexander) , in ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the present Kingdom of Hanover : collected from the most credible writers , Volume 1, Bremen: Carl Schünemann, 1823, p. 61; Digitized by the State and University Library Bremen
  • Wilhelm Ebel: Catalogus Professorum Gottingesium 1734–1962 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1962
  • Georg Waitz :  Arnswaldt, Karl Friedrich Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 598 f.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903, p.69f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Arnswaldt, Karl Friedrich Alexander Freiherr von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on May 6, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Arnswaldt, (2) Karl Friedrich Alexander, Frhr. von , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 33
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Arnswaldtstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Arnswaldt, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnswald, Alexander von; Arnswaldt, Karl Friedrich Alexander von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science politician, State Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover and curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1845
Place of death Hanover