Kasimir Konstantin Plater

Count Kasimir Konstantin Plater

Count Kasimir Konstantin Plater (* 1746/1749; † August 4, 1807 ) was the last Lithuanian Vice Chancellor before the Russian takeover .

Life

Kasimir Konstantin was a member of the German-Baltic noble family von dem Broel called Plater . His parents were Count Konstantin Ludwig Plater (1722–1778) and Princess Augusta Ogińska (1724–1791).

Plater belonged to the Polish party leaning towards Russia and was a participant in the Targowica Confederation . From 1790 to 1793 he was castellan of Trakai , as well as Livonian Starost von Dünaburg . As a consular he was a member of the Permanent Council and was still an officer in the Royal Polish National Cavalry. The count state it was in 1773 applied .

Plater was directly involved in the processes of the second and third partition of Poland through various diplomatic missions, especially to Russia, and was actively involved in these from the Polish side.

family

Plater married Isabell Ludwika von der Borch (1752–1813), a sister of Count Michael Johann von der Borch and daughter of the Polish Chancellor Johann Andreas Josef von der Borch (1715–1780) and Ludwika Anna von Syberg in Warsaw in 1773 (1725-1788). The marriage produced seven sons:

• Ludwig (1775–1846), Polish general commissioner in the Ministry of Finance, senator and castellan, ⚭ Maria Brzostowska
• Johann (1776–1850), ⚭ Karolina Plater (1784–1840)
• Michael (1777–1862), Polish engineer major, Councilor of Courland, Lithuanian lieutenant governor, ⚭ 1803 Baroness Isabella Helena Syberg zu Wischling (1785–1849) → first parents of Count Plater-Syberg
• Constantine (1778–1849), Polish aristocratic marshal
• Casimir (1780–1848), ⚭I Hedwig Plater; ⚭II Katarzyna Szczawińska; III Adela Heyden
• Stanislaus (1784–1851), Polish officer, historian and geographer, ⚭ Antonina Gajewska (1791–1866)
• Heinrich (1785–1808)

Awards

• 1775 Knight of the Order of Malta
• 1776 Order of Saint Stanislaus
• 1787 Alexander Nevsky Order
• 1791 Order of the White Eagle

Works

Plater wrote and published mainly in Polish , Napiersky (lit.) brings at least the translation of some of the titles. Below is a selection, further works can be found below (web links).

• Głos Jasnie Wielmoznego Kazimierza Platera Starosty Grodowego Xsięstwa Jnflanckiego , 1780 ( digitized version )
• Kosmopolita Do Narodu Polskiego , Warszawa 1790, ( digitized version )
• Kopia Listu Platera Starosty Inflantskiego Do Posłow Inflantskich W okoliczności , Seymikow 1790 ( digitized )
• W sprawie konserwatyzmu w Polsce , Warszawa 1922 ( digitized version )

literature

• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky , Theodor Beise : General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 3, Mitau 1831, pp. 422-423
• Emanuel Mateusz Rostworowski (ed.): Polski Słownik Biograficzny , Volume 26, Wrocław 1981 ( Internet version )

Web links

• Digitized works of Platter .
• Kazimierz Konstanty hr. Plater z Broelu h. wł. on the pages of Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego by Marek Jerzy Minakowski .
• PLATEROWIE pdf page 53 (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polski Słownik Biograficzny , Volume 26, p. 679
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German Count Houses of the Present , Volume 3, Leipzig 1854, p. 312 u. P. 388
3. ↑ Polski Słownik Biograficzny , Volume 26, p. 675