Peter von Kobbe

Peter Ludwig Christian von Kobbe (born October 6, 1793 in Glückstadt ; † September 11, 1844 in Winterhude ) was a German author , writer and lawyer .

Life

His parents were Anton Dietrich von Kobbe and Louise Adelaide Christiane geb. Countess of Rantzau -Ahrenberg. His father was an officer in the Danish Garde du Corps and held the office of governor on the island of Föhr and in Friedrichstadt , his mother was the daughter of the then Uetersen monastery provost Peter zu Rantzau . In 1802 the marriage was divorced. Von Kobbe spent his youth in Uetersen like his brother Theodor and served in the Danish army until 1820. He then studied law and became a lawyer . In 1824 he was elected mayor of Wunstorf and resigned from office in 1831, then moved to Hanover and from 1833 lived again in Uetersen and Altona. Living in Ratzeburg from 1835 on, he did a lot of historical studies and last lived as a private citizen in Winterhude, where he died of a hemorrhage .

His family belongs to the old Bremen ministerial families of the so-called "Osterstader Junker" and is the coat of arms of a tribe with the old extinct von Mertzel , de Mercele. But the Kobbes never ran the "from". Peter and Theodor and like their father only accepted it as Danish or Austrian officers because of the military nobility.

Peter Ludwig Christian von Kobbe , collective grave Schleswig-Holstein , Ohlsdorf cemetery

During this time, Peter Ludwig Christian von Kobbe wrote the works: “ History and description of the country of the duchies of Bremen and Verden ”, 1824, in 2 volumes, and “ History and description of the country of the duchy of Lauenburg ”, published in 1836 in 2 parts and again in 3 parts in 1836 and appeared in 1837. Other works are: " Roman History " (1841), the " Schleswig-Holstein History from 1694–1808 " (1834), the " History of the Latest Time " (1843) and the " Teutsche Geschichte " (1824). The latter work is occasionally attributed to his brother Theodor by antiquarians. Among his smaller works is an incorrect representation of the “ Osterstader Junker ” in his “ Nachrichten von Osterstade ” (1821).

In 1836 von Kobbe received a diamond ring from the Emperor of Russia for his work " Schleswig-Holstein History from the Death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the Death of King Christian VII, from 1694–1808 ".

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , the Schleswig-Holstein collective grave slab of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery commemorates Peter von Kobbe, among others.

Works (selection)

• History and description of the country of the duchies of Bremen and Verden. 2 parts. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1824 ( digitized ).
• The history of Spain. 3 volumes. Dresden 1826.
• History of France since the restoration of the Bourbons (history of France under Louis XVIII and Charles X). E. Schnitze, Celle 1831.
• Fualde's alleged murder. A closer look at the strangest criminal case of our century. Celle 1831.
• Presentation of the history of the struggle for freedom in Spanish and Portuguese America. Hahn, Hanover 1832.
• Schleswig-Holstein history from the death of Duke Christian Albrecht to the death of King Christian VII, from 1694–1808. Altona 1834.
• About the death penalty with special reference to the investigation against Marg. Jäger n. Cathar. Reuter to Mainz. Aue, Altona 1836.
• History and state description of the Duchy of Lauenburg 3 parts. Hammerich, Altona 1836/1837.
• About curies and clients, as the announcement of a comic story. Lübeck 1838.
• Roman history part 1: From the oldest period to the 1st Punic wars. Part 2: From the 1st Punic War to Augustus. Leipzig 1841.
• History of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Part 1. Hamburg 1842.
• The criminal trial against Jochim Hinrich Ramcke from Halstenbek explained. Hamburg / Altona 1842.
• Recent history. 2 parts. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1843.
• The criminal trial against Jochim Hinrich Ramcke, sentenced to death, and my intervention. In addition to an addendum containing an assessment of the text “Geständniss und Revocation”. Herald and electoral staff, Lüneburg 1844.

Literature and Sources

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Kobbe, Peter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 344.
• Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , CBS von Maark, Kiel 1867, page 465 (No. 1075) digitized
• Hansjörg Zimmermann: Article Kobbe, Peter von , in: Eckardt Opitz on behalf of the Herzogtum Lauenburg Foundation (ed.): Biografisches Lexikon Herzogtum Lauenburg , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-778-1 , p. 247 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Peter von Kobbe  - Sources and full texts