Madai (noble family)
Madai is the name of a German, originally from Lower Hungary originating noble family .
history
David Samuel Madai, the son of the city physician Daniel Máday from an old Hungarian noble family in Schemnitz, today's Slovakian Banská Štiavnica , studied medicine from 1729 at the University in Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1732. He became Princely Anhalt-Cöthen'scher Hofrath and personal physician as well as chief physician and head of the laboratory at the orphanage of the Francke Foundations in Halle .
By an imperial diploma of January 14, 1766 he received recognition of his nobility and was raised to the imperial nobility. The electoral Saxon recognition took place by rescript of September 13, 1766.
The management of the laboratory he set up and the medicament expedition passed on from him over several generations in the family through his son Carl August von Madai and his grandson Carl von Madai († 1851). From his marriage to Marianne (1783–1862), a daughter of General von Schubaert and divorced wife of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , the sons Guido von Madai and Max von Madai, Rittmeister in the Prussian cuirassier regiment "von Seydlitz" (Magdeburgisches ) No. 7 . One of the brothers of Carl von Madai died, married to a née von Uckermann , as a Prussian government councilor in Merseburg and another, August von Madai, in 1828 as a tax councilor in Potsdam. From his marriage to Henriette Charlotte, b. The lawyer Karl Otto von Madai came from Schlegel .
Possessions
- Benkendorf Castle in the Teutschenthal district of Holleben (location Benkendorf); Built in 1769
- Delitz am Berge
- Shatter
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1766 reflects the Turkish wars and shows in blue a natural fox running heraldically to the right , accompanied on the right by an increasing golden crescent moon , on the left by a golden star . On the crowned helmet with blue-gold blankets on the right and red-silver blankets on the left, a growing, bearded Hungarian in a red skirt tied with gold, holding a silver saber with gold cones with a speared Turkish head in his right hand, his left hand propped on his side.
Representative (chronological)
- David Samuel von Madai (1709–1780), physician and numismatist
- Carl August von Madai (1739-1816), doctor
- Guido von Madai (1810-1892), Prussian civil servant
- Karl Otto von Madai (1809–1850), lawyer and university professor
- Karl von Madai (1844–1934), officer, most recently lieutenant general
literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn)
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser B, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1907 (stem series, older genealogy), 1908–1930 (continuations)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, Leipzig: Voigt 1865, pp. 72-73
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 69
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig: Reichenbach 1837, p. 334 ; Volume 5, 1839, p. 321
