Karl von Spaur
Count Karl von Spaur (born January 4, 1794 in Wetzlar , † October 26, 1854 in Florence ) was a German diplomat in the service of the Kingdom of Bavaria. As an envoy to the Holy See, he was made through the rescue of Pius IX. famous.
Life
Count Spaur was the second of four children of the South Tyrolean Count Joseph Philipp von Spaur , a lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice , and his second wife Henriette Baroness von Franckenstein (1771–1849). Karl's half-brother Friedrich sold the Winkel property near Meran in 1812 and acquired land in the Swabian Igling and Roggenburg .
Karl von Spaur initially took "philosophical courses" at the University of Salzburg . From 1808 he studied law and camera science at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , from 1810 at the University of Landshut and from November 1812 to Easter 1814 at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . In Landshut he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Franconia and - like some Franks - in Erlangen a member of the Corps Baruthia (1812). In the Wars of Liberation in 1814 he fought as a lieutenant in the (voluntary) hunter battalion of the Illerkreis , in 1815 in the Kgl. Bavarian 6th Chevaulegers Regiment "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" .
Adopted in 1818, he entered the diplomatic service of the Crown of Bavaria . After he had been diplomatic secretary at their diplomatic missions in Berlin and Vienna , he was sent to the Federal Assembly of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main as a Legation Councilor .
In 1833 he was charge d'affaires to the Holy See. In the same year he married Therese verw. Dodwell born Countess Giraud of Roman nobility , "one of the most remarkable women in Rome because of her beauty, her spirit and her refinement". Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See since 1838, he enjoyed the full confidence of Popes Gregory XVI. and Pius IX. as well as the Bavarian kings Ludwig I and Maximilian II Joseph . At the same time he was accredited in 1850 at the Sardinian court in Turin and in 1851 at the court of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Naples .
See also
Escape helpers
When the Italian March Revolution broke out in 1848 , the (for Metternich ) "liberal" Pius IX came. in distress. Spaur and his wife helped the disguised Pope to escape to Gaeta on November 24, 1848 and to Portici near Naples on September 4, 1849 . When the revolution was suppressed by French , Austrian , Spanish and Neapolitan troops, Spaur returned to Rome on April 4, 1850, after 17 months in exile . Eight days later, Pius followed in triumphant fashion. Countess Spaur's Italian report on the historic enterprise has been translated into French and German .
Seriously ill and on leave, Spaur died on his way home to Bavaria at the age of 60 in Florence.
literature
- Obituary for Spaur . Supplement to No. 319 of the Allgemeine Zeitung of Nov. 15, 1854.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Spaur, Karl Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 110–112 ( digitized version ).
- Helmut Gebhardt: A Bayreuth rescues the Pope - Karl Graf von Spaur . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 43 (1998), pp. 359-365.
Web links
- Dorothea Wiesenberger: Karl von Spaur (Stürgkh's family archive) [1] (PDF; 7.0 MB)
- Spaur and Flavon, Karl Graf too. Hessian biography. (As of April 13, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geneall
- ↑ a b c H. Gebhardt (1998)
- ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 37/108.
- ↑ a b Hessian biography
- ↑ D. Wiesenberger
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Konrad Adolf von Malsen |
Bavarian envoy to the Holy See 1832–1854 |
Ferdinand von Verger |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spaur, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spaur, Count Karl Christian Johannes von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat in the Bavarian service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1854 |
| Place of death | Florence |