Karl Ludwig August Heino von Münchhausen
Karl Ludwig August Heino Freiherr von Münchhausen (born February 17, 1759 in Hessisch Oldendorf , † December 16, 1836 in Lauenau ) was a Hessian officer and writer. He was a friend of Johann Gottfried Seumes .
life and career
Born in 1759 in the Weser Renaissance castle in Hessisch Oldendorf as a scion of the "white line" of the aristocratic family Münchhausen , he entered the Hessian military service in 1780 and at his request became an officer of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel together with troops sold to England for combat in the American War of Independence sent to North America. It was the last Hessian recruit transport to America; already at the beginning of the voyage on the Weser a mutiny had to be put down, from which Münchhausen got a lame finger.
In Halifax he met Sergeant Johann Gottfried Seume in his company . From then on, the two were linked by a close friendship, which Seume also reports on in his autobiography Mein Leben . After returning to Europe in 1782, both lost contact. They only found each other again in 1792, and from then on they exchanged letters intensively. Together, Seume and v. Münchhausen 1797 in Frankfurt her recollections . Seume dedicated the poem Farewell Greeting to my friend Münchhausen to Münchhausen . The only reunion of the two friends took place in 1802, when Seume visited his friend, who was staying in Schmalkalden , on the way back from his famous walk to Syracuse .
In 1809 KLAH von Münchhausen was arrested by the French for participating in the Dörnberg rebellion ( Wilhelm von Dörnberg ), but was acquitted again thanks to a clever and eloquent defense.
Karl Ludwig von Münchhausen corresponded with various writers and scholars of his time, including Friedrich David Gräter . In 1791 Münchhausen's drama Sympathie der Seelen was premiered in Kassel , in 1798 the romance Der neue Schiffer appeared in Marburg and in 1801 in Neustrelitz the Bardenalmanach der Deutschen . V. Also worked on the Göttingen muse almanac . Münchhausen with.
From 1813, Karl Ludwig lived in his castles in the Schaumburg region, having become wealthy through inheritance. In 1804 he had acquired the estate in Lauenau from the estate of a cousin , and in 1827 from another cousin Hessisch Oldendorf . He died in 1836 at Schwedesdorf Castle in Lauenau. He found his final resting place in the Münchhausen family crypt on the north side of the St. Marien town church in his native Hessisch Oldendorf at the side of his wife Marianne Schenck zu Schweinsberg (* 1779, marriage 1802, † 1828), with whom he had four children.
reception
The memory of Karl von Münchhausen was only preserved in the Schaumburger Land and in Hesse from a regional historical point of view. As a friend of Seume, he retained a marginal role. Only with the reprint of the “Rückerinnerungen” from 1797 in 2010 are works by him in print again.
literature
- Seume, Johann Gottfried: My life. Unabridged for the first time. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018.
- Strieder-Justi: Basis for e. Hess. Scholarly history Vol. 18, 1819, (387-399)
- Bartz; Walter: The warrior and poet Karl Freiherr von Münchhausen - Heimatblätter supplement to the Schaumburger Zeitung 1932 No. 38
- Schoof, Wilhelm: Review of the days passed. Records of the kurhess. Hauptmanns K. Frh. V. M. on the American War of Independence and its relationship with Joh. Gottfried Seume - Schaumburger Heimatbl. 1953, 26-33
- Karl Ernst Hermann Krause : Münchhausen, Karl Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 7.
- Eberhardt, Robert: Seume and Münchhausen. With the reprint of the recollections from 1797. 2010. ISBN 978-3-941461-03-1
- Deetjen, Werner: Bürger and Heino v. Münchhausen , In: Archive for Study of Modern Languages a. Literatur, Jg. 67, 1913, pp. 424–425 (About his relationship with Gottfried August Bürger , who dedicated a sonnet to him)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Münchhausen, Karl Ludwig August Heino von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Münchhausen, Karl Ludwig August Heino Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hessian Oldendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1836 |
| Place of death | Lauenau |