Ludwig Philip of Bombelles
Ludwig Philipp, Count of Bombelles (born July 1, 1780 in Regensburg , † July 7, 1843 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat .
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Coming from an originally Portuguese - French aristocratic family, Count Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles was born in Regensburg on July 1, 1780 as the son of the general, diplomat and later Bishop of Amiens (1817) Marc Marie Marquis de Bombelles and Princess Angélique de Mackau .
He was first in Austrian, then in Neapolitan military service. Driven from Naples by the revolution, he was employed in Vienna at the secret state chancellery. Then he was assigned to the Austrian embassy in Berlin under Metternich . There he was the one who, as a special eyewitness, emphasized the public shock over the death of Queen Luise of Prussia in his reports. Later appointed chargé d'affaires at the Berlin court, he succeeded King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1813 . to Wroclaw and then received a mission to Copenhagen to meet King Frederick VI. to withdraw from Denmark from the alliance with Napoleon Bonaparte .
After the first Peace of Paris , he was Austrian ambassador in Copenhagen, where he 1816 to Ida Brun ( 1792 - 1856 ), a daughter of the merchant Constantin Brun and the author Friederike Brun married, then in Dresden , where his house through musical and dramatic Conversation became the focus of high society.
He attended the Congress in Karlsbad in 1819 as the representative of Austria and followed the instructions received from Vienna with ruthless severity. Transferred from Dresden to Naples as Austrian envoy, the revolution that broke out there prevented him from taking up his post. After that he acted as envoy at the courts of Florence , Modena and Lucca , at the Turin court, and from 1832 in Bern .
As the Austrian envoy there and plenipotentiary minister to the Swiss Confederation , as a confidante of Metternich and a supporter of the restoration policy, he represented an extreme opposition to all liberal tendencies. His policy went hand in hand with the papal nuncio and advocated a “policy of the strong hand” , which also did not rule out Austrian military intervention in Switzerland .
Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles died on July 7, 1843 in Vienna.
His brother Heinrich Franz von Bombelles was also a diplomat and also educator of the grandchildren of Emperor Franz II , especially the later Emperor Franz Joseph I - Charles-René de Bombelles (1785-1856), his other brother, was chief steward and minister at the court of Parma and the third husband of Marie-Louise of Austria .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bombelles, Ludwig Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 40 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hellmuth Rößler: Bombelles, Ludwig Philipp Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 440 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Bombelles Ludwig Philipp Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 101.
- Elisabeth Droß (ed.): Sources for the Metternich era, (= selected sources on German history in modern times, vol. 23a), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1999.
- Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucius Grisebach / Konrad Renger: Festschrift for Otto von Simson on his 65th birthday, Propylaen Verlag 1977, p. 516
- ↑ mvdok.lbmv.de
- ↑ Luzius Lenherr, Ultimatum to Switzerland, 1991.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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vacant |
Imperial and Royal Austrian envoy in Dresden 1816–1820 |
Anton Pálffy |
Adam of Ficquelmont |
kk Austrian envoy in Florence 1820–1829 |
Franz Josef von Saurau |
Franz Binder von Krieglstein |
kk Austrian envoy in Bern 1837–1843 |
Eugen von Philippsberg |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bombelles, Ludwig Philipp von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bombelles, Ludwig Philipp Count of |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1780 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1843 |
Place of death | Vienna |