Wilhelm Chenu de Chalsac l'Aujardiere

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Wilhelm Chenu de Chalezac , Count l'Aujardiere, (born November 1, 1672 in Guyenne , † December 30, 1731 in Magdeburg ) was an adventurer and Prussian colonel.

Life

When there were attacks in the context of the Huguenot persecution in Saintonge , where the family lived, he fled. He went on March 22, 1686 in Bordeaux on board a ship bound for Africa. Pirates attacked the ship and he had to leave the ship with some other sailors before the Cape of Good Hope . His comrades were killed on land by natives, he escaped and was from a Xhosa -Häuptling adopted . On the way to the Dutch settlement on the Cape , he and survivors of other ships ( Stavenisse , Good Hope (1685), Bonaventura (1686)) were rescued by the search ship Centaurus . He joined the East Indian Company and returned to Holland on October 24, 1689, where his family was waiting for him.

From 1690 he entered the Brandenburg service. On December 6, 1707 he became a major in the von Lattorf regiment. On January 23, 1710 he became a lieutenant colonel in the von Heyden regiment. On July 30, 1718 he became a colonel in the Schliewitz regiment (No. 9). On July 29, 1723 he became the governor of the offices of Usedom , Ueckermünde , Stolpe and Verchen . From December 10, 1728 until his death in 1732, he was Chief of Infantry Regiment No. 20 .

He went to Brandenburg with his mother and brother Jacques in 1724. His brother was there captain in the regiment of the margrave of Anhalt-Dessau and later court marshal at the court of Saxony-Barby.

He wrote down his experiences. They were published after his death in 1748. The original manuscript was in the Magdeburg library until the Second World War and disappeared after the war.

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His work has been published several times:

  • Johann Christian Klayb, Mr. Lojardiere, travel description to Africa, written by himself in French and translated into German for the first time , Frankfurt an der Oder 1748
  • Richard Setzpfandt, Reuseabernteuer of Mr. Wilhelm Chenu von Chalezac, Seigneur de Laufjardiere, in the land of the Hottentots and Kaffirs, 1686-1689 , The French Colony, No. 8 Discussion of the work

Also in recent times:

  • Guillaume Chenu de Laujadiere, Relation d'un voyage a lo cote des Cafre (1686–1689) , Paris 1996
  • Randolph Vigne, Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, The "french Boy": the narrative of hier experience as a huguenot refugee, as a castaway among Xhosa, his rescue with the Stavenisse survivors by the Centaurus, his service at the Cape and return to Europe, (1686-1689) , Cape Town, Van Riebeck Society, 1991

literature

  • Nathanael Weiss: Les aventures de Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, seigneur de Laujardiere, au pays des Cafre, 1686-1689. In: Bulletin de Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais. Volume 80, 1921
  • Robinsons brother's journeys and adventures. 1791, p. 150ff., Digitized
  • Anton Balthasar König : Wilhelm Chenu de Chalsac l'Aujardiere . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 1 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1788, p. 91 ( Wilhelm Chenu de Chalsac l'Aujardiere at Wikisource [PDF]).
  • Jean Pierre Erman , Pierre Christian Frédéric Reclam: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des réfugiés françois dans les États du roi. Volume 9, 1799, p. 65, digitized
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume I, 1836, p. 152, digitized
  • Stephen Abel Laval: A compendious history of the Reformation in France. 1741, p. 7, digitized version (for the expulsion of the family from France)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 2, 1860, p. 252, digitized
  2. ^ Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Randy J. Sparks: Memory and identity: the Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. P. 306

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personal data
SURNAME Chenu de Chalsac l'Aujardiere, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chalesak; Chenu de Chalezak; Chalisac; Chenu de Laujadiere, Guillaume; Chenu de Chalezac, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Adventurer and Prussian Colonel
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Guyenne
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1731
Place of death Magdeburg