Matthias Andreas Alardus

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Matthias Andreas Alardus , from 1751 Matthias Andreas Alardus von Canthier (born September 9, 1715 in Neuenkirchen (Dithmarschen) , † May 29, 1772 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat, freemason and author.

Life

Matthias Andreas Alardus came from the Schleswig-Holstein pastor family Alard (us), which went back to Franz Alard . He was the second child and first son of Nicolaus Alardus (the younger, 1683-1756), from 1712 a deacon in Neuenkirchen (Dithmarschen), from 1717 pastor in Steinbeck (today Kirchsteinbek ) and then from 1738 lector secundarius and pastor at the Hamburg Cathedral (Alter Mariendom) , and his wife Rebecca Magdalena, geb. Forcke (1691–1716), a daughter of Pastor Matthias Forcke in Steinbek. Nikolaus Alard was his grandfather, the later Hamburg Senator Christian Heinrich Alardus (the elder, 1729–1791) his younger brother.

From 1729 he attended the learned school of the Johanneum and from 1732 the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium . In 1735 he was enrolled at the University of Kiel ; the following year he moved to the University of Leipzig . In Leipzig he met Johann Christoph Gottsched , to whom he remained connected later. Also in Leipzig he became a member of the afternoon speakers society .

After returning to Hamburg, he initially worked as a journalist. Together with his cousin Matthias Arnold Wodarch (1715-1761), from 1739 to 1743 he published the Hamburg Enlightenment Contributions to the recording of learned history and the sciences . In 1740 he became a member of the German Society in Göttingen . Alardus made an entry in the album amicorum of the later Swedish personal physician Herman Schützer (1713-1802) from 1742 .

On July 6, 1741, Alardus was accepted into the first German Masonic lodge, Absalom, in Hamburg. He served her as their secretary and speaker from 1741 to 1747. 1746–47 he was also the first overseer of the Judica lodge . On August 10, 1745 he became a member of the St. Georg Lodge at the Kaiserhof Hamburg . He was also a member of the Provincial Lodge in Hamburg. With the publication of his box speeches, he was "the first to do something like Masonic public relations". His collected speeches and poems appeared in 1747 and 1754.

In 1747 he entered the service of the Lübeck bishopric and withdrew from Freemasonry. When Prince-Bishop Friedrich August took office in 1750, he was legation councilor and administrator for the Eutin office . Friedrich August appointed him secret cabinet secretary. Alardus thus headed the foreign affairs of the small prince-bishopric and was the superior of Johann Matthias Dreyer . He now called himself Alardus von Canthier after an estate that the family is said to have once owned near Brussels . With this addition to his name, he was raised to imperial nobility by an imperial decree of August 27, 1751 . His activity fell during the time of the Grand Princely in Schleswig-Holstein and was shaped by the negotiations between Denmark and Russia, which led to the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo in 1773, the year after Alardus' death .

Alardus died unmarried.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Society of Freyen Arts in Leipzig

Works

literature

  • Alardus, Matthias Andreas , in: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 1: Abatz - Dassovius, Hamburg 1849, p. 24 No. 31
  • Alardus, Matthias Andreas , in: General Manual of Freemasonry. 3rd edition, Volume 1: A – L, Leipzig: Hesse 1900, p. 15
  • Werner Herzog: Matthias Andreas Alardus (1715-1772) and Matthias Arnold Wodarch (1715-1761), Hamburgische Freymäurer: a contribution to the history of Freemasonry in Hamburg. In: Jahrbuch Quatuor Coronati 23 (1986), pp. 191-236
  • Alardus, Matthias Andreas , in: Bio-bibliographisches Korrespondentenverzeichnis , Detlef Döring (†), Franziska Menzel, Rüdiger Otto and Michael Schlott, with the collaboration of Cornelia Caroline Köhler: Johann Christoph Gottsched. Correspondence including the correspondence from Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched. Volume 7: August 1740 - October 1741, Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, p. 587 (also in: Bio-bibliographical correspondent directory of volumes 1-10 full text )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family see the standard sequence in A. Leese Berg: The Alardus de Cantier , in: The German Herold 16 (1885), pp 90 -92
  2. ↑ Stages of life essentially according to the bio-bibliographical list of correspondents (lit.)
  3. ↑ See the letter from Alardus to Gootsched of April 14, 1741, in: Detlef Döring, Franziska Menzel, Rüdiger Otto, Michael Schlott (ed.): Johann Christoph Gottsched. Correspondence including the correspondence from Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched. Volume 7: August 1740 - October 1741, Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, p. 403f
  4. ↑ Entry in the database Repertorium alborum amicorum , accessed on July 13, 2020
  5. ↑ Manfred Steffens: Freemasons in Germany: Balance of a quarter of a millennium. 1964, p. 201
  6. ↑ See the description of the handover in 1750 by Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck. Volume 3, Lübeck 1805, pp. 256f
  7. ↑ He is according to A. Leese Berg: The Alardus de Cantier , in: The German Herold 16 (1885), pp 90 -92, here also have been a canon of the pen Lübeck S. 91, but is not found in Wolfgang Prange complete List of canons in: Bishop and Cathedral Chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and Region 1160–1937. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 ; but it is possible that he had a preamble as canon at the collegiate monastery of Eutin .
  8. ↑ A. Leese Berg: The Alardus de Cantier , in: The German Herold 16 (1885), pp 90 -92
personal data
SURNAME Alardus, Matthias Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alardus von Canthier, Matthias Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, freemason and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenkirchen (Dithmarschen)
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1772
Place of death Hamburg