Rudolph von Bünau (Chamberlain)

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Rudolph von Bünau , from 1742 Count von Bünau , (* July 27, 1711 ; † February 8, 1772 ) was a royal-Polish and electoral-Saxon chamberlain , assessor of the upper court of Leipzig , canon of Merseburg and owner of the manor Seusslitz , Radewitz and Lehnitzsch. He is the founder of the Count's line of those from Bünau zu Seusslitz.

Life

He came from the Saxon noble family von Bünau and was next to Heinrich von Bünau one of the sons of the Electorate Chancellor Heinrich von Bünau (1665–1745) , who was raised to the rank of imperial count on March 24, 1742. Johann Friedrich Christ was one of his teachers . After completing his studies, he entered the state service in Saxony and became an assessor at the Leipzig Higher Court , titular chamberlain at the Dresden court and canon of Merseburg.

literature

  • Karl Czok : August the Strong and Electoral Saxony. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1988, p. 124 ff.
  • Werner Schultze: Heinrich von Bünau. An Electoral Saxon statesman, scholar and maecen (dissertation). Leipzig 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical information
personal data
SURNAME Bünau, Rudolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünau, Rudolf Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Chamberlain and Canon of Merseburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1711
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1772