Otto Arthur von Ditfurth

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The " court master " Otto Arthur von Ditfurth with the marshal and chief hunter Hartmann Ludwig von Wangenheim and the chief hunter Otto Friedrich von Moltke ;
1680 at the funeral procession for Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg ; Copper engraving (detail) by Johann Georg Lange on the initiative of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Otto Arthur von Ditfurth (also: Otto Arthur von Ditfurdt and other variants of the spelling of the surname; * around 1635 ; † January 5 or January 15, 1695 in Celle ) was a Hanoverian court master , envoy , miner , Drost and privy councilor .

Life

Otto Arthur von Ditfurth, born at the time of the Thirty Years' War in 1635 as a member of the von Ditfurth family , worked almost three decades after the end of the war as the ducal Braunschweig-Lüneburg envoy for Hanover, in August 1676 in Dresden and from May 1677 to March 1678 in Paris .

At the beginning of the 1680s, von Ditfurth was mentioned as Drost in Münden .

In 1681 von Ditfurth accompanied the young Friedrich August von Hannover , a son of the then Duke Duke Ernst August , who had previously moved to Rome on his first foreign and educational trip, on his journey to Paris, where the young prince with the French high nobility should be made known. The entourage with four Lower Saxon cavaliers included a further 29 people in the household, including four valets for the court master of Ditfurt and six valets for the prince.

Again as envoy - but then at the same time for the royal courts in Celle and Wolfenbüttel - von Ditfurth worked at the court of Berlin from June 1681 to April 1683 .

1684 or on April 9 or 19, 1685, the Legation Councilor and Mündener Drost von Ditfurth was first appointed Vice-Mining Captain, from January 27 or February 6, 1686 then mining captain and Privy Council in Clausthal and Zellerfeld in the Upper Harz . Valuable coinage emerged under him , in particular "the Lautenthalerin".

Ditfurt's secretary was Matthaeus Blech († October 1693).

Otto Arthur von Ditfurth had generally earned a high reputation, among other things because of his commitment to school education in Clausthal, which was geared towards mining needs, and because of his correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . He wrote to him, for example, about the windmill project pursued by Leibniz . During von Ditfurt's time in the Harz Mountains , Leibniz invented the spiral basket to "balance equilibrium" and the attempt - as the predecessor of the wire rope inventor Julius Albert - in 1685 to create an endless chain.

Correspondence in the Leibniz Edition

Handwritten correspondence has been received from Otto Arthur von Ditfurth. Therefore

  • On November 23, 1692 he received a letter from the mint master Otto Arthur von Ditfurdt
  • and was the subject of a total of 63 documents in, to and from Leibniz

Archival material

Archival material by and about Otto Arthur von Ditfurt can be found, for example

  • as a file under the titles Money Bill of 1620 and Money and Corn Register on the feudal and hereditary interest goods of Otto Arthur von Ditfurth in the Lower Saxony State Archives (location Bückeburg) , in the Deposit Dep. 3 GR Guts- und Familienarchiv v. Münchhausen, Apelern: Gutsarchiv , part of money, corn, poor and other registers (1620–1812) , archive signature NLA BU Dep. 3 GR No. 90 (old archive signature V 1 )
  • as a map drawn by Holle from 1693 under the title of the private house of Otto Arthur von Ditfurth, privy councilor and mining captain zu Clausthal in the Lower Saxony state archive (Hanover location) , map collection of maps - old stock , part of buildings, building complexes, views, floor plans , archive signature NLA HA Map collection No. 24 p Clausthal 1 pg (old archive signature Cal.Br. 15 No. 955 )

Web links

Commons : Otto Arthur von Ditfurth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f o. V .: Ditfurth, Otto Arthur from in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in the version of November 14, 2007, accessed on April 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i o. V .: Ditfurdt, Otto Arthur von (January 15, 1695) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Georg-August University of Göttingen [undated], leibniz.uni-goettingen.de , accessed on April 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Antje Stannek: Telemach's Brothers. The courtly educational journey of the 17th century (= history and gender. Volume 33), at the same time dissertation in 1996 at the European University Institute in Florence, Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-593-36726-2 , p. 134 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ a b Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . Volume 50, August Lax, Hildesheim 1978, p. 278 (preview, books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ a b Wilhelm Rothert : v. Ditfurt, Otto Arth. In the other: General Hannoversche biography. Volume 3: Hanover under the electoral hat 1646-1815. Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 488.
  6. ↑ Hubertus Fischer , Wenchao Li , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (ed.): Leibniz - Garden - Landscape (= Herrenhäuser Schriften. Volume 7), Munich: AVM.edition, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95477-079-3 , p 106 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
  7. ↑ Information in the archive information system Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen
  8. ↑ Information about Arcinsys
personal data
SURNAME Ditfurth, Otto Arthur von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ditfurdt, Otto Arthur von; Diefort, Otto Arthur von; Dietfort, Otto Arthur von; Ditfurt, Otto Arthur von; Ditfort, Otto Arthur von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian court master, envoy, mining captain, Drost and privy councilor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1635
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1695 or January 15, 1695
Place of death Celle