Karl von Linden
Count Karl Heinrich von Linden (born May 28, 1838 in Ulm ; † January 15, 1910 in Stuttgart ) was the co-founder of the Museum for Regional and Ethnology (Linden Museum) in Stuttgart , which is now named after him, and a patron of the museum.
Life
Karl von Linden came from the Linden family . He was one of five sons from the second marriage of Count Edmund von Linden (1798-1865) with Freyin Wilhelmine Fuchs von Bimbach and Dornheim. After graduating from high school in Ulm, he studied law and economics in Tübingen and became court marshal and chamberlain to Karl Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg during his civil service .
He married his wife Maria Elisabeth Bech (born June 26, 1847 in New York) on May 8, 1877; she died in 1914. The marriage remained childless.
A year before his retirement in 1886 he became a member of the Württemberg Association for Commercial Geography and in 1887 a member of the committee. From 1889 until his death in 1910 he was chairman of the committee.
Awards
- 1873: Awarded the Grand Ducal Hessian Commander's Cross, 2nd class, of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
- 1877: Knight of Honor Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
- 1889: Award of the Commander's Cross, 2nd class, of the Frederick Order
- 1902: Award of the Commander's Cross, 1st class of the Order of Frederick
- 1910: Honorary doctorate from the State University of Tübingen
literature
- Friedrich Kussmaul: Linden, Karl Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 590 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 244 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 4, 2013
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, page 40
- ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg , accessed on February 5, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linden, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Linden, Karl Heinrich Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1910 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |