Volrath zu Solms-Rödelheim

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Count Volrath Friedrich Carl Ludwig zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (born December 6, 1762 in Assenheim , † February 5, 1818 in Rödelheim ) was a ruling imperial count and poet .

family

Volrath Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim came from the Hessian noble family Solms . He was the eldest son and, after the death of two younger siblings, the only child of Johann Ernst Karl Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (1714–1790) and his second wife Amöna Charlotte Eleonora, née Countess zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (1743 -1800). The direct imperial rule over Rödelheim and Assenheim took over Count Volrat's father only after the death of his older brother Count Wilhelm Karl Ludwig (1699–1778), who had left no male descendants. Only a few details are known about Count Volrat's youth and upbringing. Until he was fourteen he was taught by the court master and later court and consistorial councilor Johann Hartmann Walther.

He married on August 28, 1789 in Laubach Philippine Charlotte Sophie Countess of Solms-Laubach (born December 19, 1771 in Laubach; † July 6, 1807 in Utphe), the daughter of Hereditary Count Georg August zu Solms-Laubach. They had the following children:

⚭ 1824 Louise Amalie , née Countess zu Solms-Laubach (1795–1875)
  • Friedrich (1791-1859)
  • Ferdinande Sophie Charlotte Friederike (1793-1859)
⚭ 1815 Maximilian Graf zu Erbach-Schönberg (1787–1823)
  • Franz (1796-1852)
  • Henriette Amöne Luise (1800–1804)
  • Eduard Friedrich Heinrich (1801-1860)
  • Elisabeth (1806-1885)
⚭ 1826 Wilhelm Friedrich Prince of Salm-Horstmar (1799–1865).

Career

  • 1776–1780 studied in Giessen , then at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar
  • 1786–1788 traveled to Switzerland and through central and northern Germany
  • 1790–1806 ruling count in Rödelheim
  • then in Braunschweig, since 1814 in Rödelheim
  • 1780–1785 member of the Giessen lodge “Ludwig zu den three golden lions” in the apprentice degree

Works (selection)

  • 1802: separation and reconciliation
  • 1802: Advice and consolation to M:
  • 1802: The Brittle
  • 1803: Farewell to the century
  • 1808: Laodamia
  • 1811: Paths of Life
  • 1811: Cupid's rescue
  • 1811: Conversation with the nightingale
  • 1813: Song of triumph after the battle for freedom
  • [1814]: Rundgesang to sing on May 1st 1814 - anonymous single print, partial print near Isenburg.

literature

  • Wilhelm Karl von Isenburg : Around 1800 - From the time and life of Count Vollrath zu Solms-Rödelheim (1762–1818). Leipzig 1927.
  • Tobias Busch: Imperial counties in the area of ​​today's Hesse at the end of the early modern period. Rule and economy using the example of the imperial counts of Solms-Rödelheim. In: Aristocracy in Hessen: rule, self-image and lifestyle from the 15th to the 20th century. Marburg 2010. pp. 381-401.
  • Patricia Sensch: Sophie von La Roches letters to Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen (1788–1806). Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston 2016. ISBN 978-3-11-040870-6 . Pp. 103, 326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Bastian: "The human heart can hold so much". The studbook of Volrat Graf zu Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013. ISBN 978-3-631-63259-8 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Karl von Isenburg : Around 1800 - From the time and life of Count Vollrath zu Solms-Rödelheim (1762-1818). Leipzig 1927. p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Solms-Rödelheim, Volrath too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim, Volrath Friedrich Carl Ludwig Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Poet and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Assenheim
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1818
Place of death Rödelheim