Rudolf von Sydow

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Rudolf von Sydow , actually Carl Curt Friedrich Ferdinand Rudolf von Sydow , (born September 9, 1805 in Petznick , † March 14, 1872 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, Prussian legation councilor and envoy.

Life

From Sydow's father was the officer and landowner Karl Ernst Rudolf Heinrich von Sydow (1776–1813), his mother was Beate Luise Christine von Berg from the Mittenwalde house (1783–1856).

After his cadet days he appeared on 6 April 1822 Secondeleutnant in the Kaiser-Franz-Grenadier - Regiment one, which he left in 1824 again. He then studied law in Bonn . There he made the acquaintance of the philologist Gustav Kramer (1806–1888) in 1827 , whom he later met again in Rome and Berlin. He was the winner of an award publication (see works) that appeared in print in 1828. In the same year he became an auscultator .

Through his acquaintance with Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen (1791-1860) he was appointed by him in 1831 as legation secretary to the Prussian embassy to the Holy See in Rome. There he was also on the board of the evangelical community and co-founder of the evangelical hospital, which was affiliated with the legation. He became friends with the legation preacher Friedrich von Tippelskirch (1802–1866). In October and November 1834 he stayed with Tippelskirch, Kramer and others in Naples and the surrounding area. At the end of July 1835 he left Italy and returned to Berlin.

He then worked as a Prussian resident in the Free City of Frankfurt am Main . In 1837 he was appointed legation councilor. On June 2, 1837, his first marriage was Leontine Friederike Juliane Minette von Brockhusen , born on November 10, 1814 in Mittelfelde , she died on February 26, 1838 in Brussels . A year and a quarter after the death of his first wife, he married Marie Elisabeth Freiin von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim on July 23, 1839 , who was born on December 24, 1818 and died on March 3, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main. She was the daughter of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha State Minister Dietrich Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim and Henriette Freiin von Günderrode , in 1854 she converted to the Catholic faith.

Von Sydow was appointed chamberlain in 1842. In 1845 he was envoy in Brussels and in 1847 in Bern . In 1853 he was appointed to the Real Secret Council and President of the Hohenzollern Lands . In 1859 he was envoy in Kassel and in 1863 he was envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt. He received the title of excellence and resigned from civil service in 1864.

He then returned to Berlin, where he took over the chairmanship of the Central Association for the Care of Wounded and Sick Warriors during the German-Danish War . He was also chairman of the Society for the Spread of Christianity among the Jews in Berlin. Together with his brother, sister and other relatives he was close to the Pietist circles around the preacher Karl Loeffler , the so-called revival movement . In 1867 he became a member of the Prussian manor house .

Works

  • Presentation of the law of inheritance according to the principles of the Sachsenspiegel, with consideration of the related sources , a crowned price publication, Berlin, Dümmler 1828.

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SURNAME Sydow, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydow, Carl Curt Friedrich Ferdinand Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Prussian legation councilor and envoy
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Petznick
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1872
Place of death Berlin