Maximilian Joseph von Lamberg

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Count Maximilian Joseph von Lamberg (born November 22, 1729 in Brno , † June 23, 1792 in Kremsier ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

He came from the Orteneck line of the noble family Lamberg and was the son of Count Karl Anton von Lamberg and his wife Maria Lucretia Marquise Turrinetti de Prié. Lamberg studied in Breslau, Berlin and Halle and was on a cavalier tour in France (three years in Paris) and the Netherlands. There he met Karl Eugen von Württemberg and in 1761 entered his service as Privy Councilor and Castle Captain. He accompanied him on his trip to Italy. In 1753 he married Countess Maria Theresa Trautmannsdorf (1729–1755) - the marriage remained childless - and after the death of his first wife he remarried Maria Josepha Freiin von Dachsberg (* 1746) in Bavaria in 1763, with whom he had two sons and two daughters . In 1764 he moved to the Bishop of Augsburg, Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt, as Oberhofmarschall, privy councilor and conference minister .

In 1769 he gave up his post to undertake a major trip to Italy, Corsica and as far as Tunis. It lasted until 1771. He reports about it in his book Memorial d´un Mondain (Diary of a Man of the World), which also contained numerous other essays and reflections on a wide variety of topics. It received a lot of attention and was soon reprinted in new editions. From 1772 he was an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He also reports on interesting contemporaries he met, such as Pasquale Paoli , the French governor of Corsica Charles Louis de Marbeuf (1712–1786), James Boswell (also known for a travel book from Corsica), the diplomat and art patron Giacomo Durazzo , the Count of Saint-Germain , who partly accompanied him on his journey, Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart , the philosopher Count Oettingen-Baldern, Carlo Goldoni , Giacomo Casanova , the improvised poet (improvisatrice) Corilla Olimpica and scientists like Laura Bassi , Ruder Boskovic and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli .

After his Mediterranean trip he traveled a lot in Germany (as a welcome guest "from one castle to another"), lived as a private citizen in Landhut, Vienna and Brno and dealt with mathematics, physics and philosophy. Among other things, he published an essay in which he investigated the question of whether facial contours and shapes can be characterized and thus quantified using algebraic curves. He was considered a great scholar and was in correspondence with David Hume , Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , Voltaire , Albrecht von Haller and Francesco Algarotti . He spoke the most important European languages ​​(Italian, French, English, Spanish), was classically educated and gifted in mathematics, worked as an inventor and had a valuable physical cabinet. He was of pleasant nature and was therefore nicknamed Democritus dulcior .

He was often in Olomouc with the befriended Archbishop of Olomouc Anton Theodor von Colloredo and his predecessor Maximilian von Hamilton . He died in the castle of the Archbishop of Olomouc in Kremsier.

Fonts

  • Lettres à quelques-unes des mes amis , Paris
  • Mes fragments , Paris 1758
  • Essai sur l'impossible: ouvrageproblemématique , Paris 1764
  • Vanité de quelques-unes des nos connaissances , Paris 1766
  • Nouveaux sujets de littérature et de philosophie , London 1767
  • Reflexions sur la propriété d'une courbe algébraïque dont les contours marqueraient les traits d'un visage connu , Livorno 1770
  • Mémorial d'un Mondain , Frankfurt am Main: JG Eßlinger, 1774, new edition in two volumes London 1776 and Vienna: Trattner; Volume 1, Archives , Volume 2, Archives
    • German edition: Diary of a man of the world , Frankfurt am Main 1775 (translation of the 1st edition GL Wagner)
  • Epoques raisonnées sur la vie d'Albert de Haller , Leipzig 1778
  • Lettres de l´author du Mémorial d´un Mondain sur une nouvelle méthode d´apprendre à parler , 1781
  • Trays fantastiques ou Bibliothèque très particulière pour quelques pais et pour quelques hommes par l´auteur du Mémorial d´un Mondain , Dessau 1782
  • Question sur une nouvelle manière de compter, ou Bustroph numéral dédié aux arithméticiens modern , Paris 1782
  • Le Canot ou lettres de Madame Blergx par l´auteur du Mémorial d´un Mondain , Vienna 1782
  • Lettres critiques, morales et politiques , Amsterdam (Hanau) 1786, Supplement 1786, new editions Bern 1786, 1787, Vienna 1802
  • Monthly correspondence from the European secret islands (only one issue appeared)
  • Contributions to Hawlik's paperback on the encouragement of patriotic talents 1802 (by Ernst Hawlik )
  • About pleasure , in: Hawlik's pocket book for Moravia 1803
  • On the return to my fatherland , Hawlik's pocket book for Moravia 1804 (and excerpts from Lamberg's poem Xenokrat)
  • Gustav Gugitz (eds.): Casanova and Graf Lamberg: Unpublished letters from Count Max Lamberg to Casanova from the castle archive in Dux , Vienna: Bernina Verlag 1935

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Österreich 1865. According to Karl Goedeke , Grundriß zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur aus den Quellen, Volume 7, Book 7, Department 2, Dresden 1900, p. 8, Archives , died on June 21 or 23, 1792
  2. ↑ She inspired Madame de Stael to write her novel Corinne
  3. ↑ Fictitious printing location Cap Corse on Corsica
personal data
SURNAME Lamberg, Maximilian Joseph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1792
Place of death Kremsier