Wilhelm Friedrich Theodor von Burgsdorff
Wilhelm Friedrich Theodor von Burgsdorff (born September 23, 1772 in Ziebingen , † October 6, 1822 in Dresden ) was a German patron .
Life
Wilhelm Friedrich Theodor was born as the second eldest son of Joachim Friedrich Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff († January 29, 1822) and Charlotte Albertine, b. Countess Finck von Finckenstein (born September 4, 1749, † March 12, 1826) was born on the family seat of the Burgsdorffs in Ziebingen . He received his school education at the Philanthropinum in Dessau and from 1789 at the Friedrichswerdersches Gymnasium in Berlin . Schoolmates at that time were Ludwig Tieck and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder .
From 1791 he studied law at the University of Halle and later at the University of Göttingen . In 1795 he was employed as a trainee lawyer at the War and Domain Chamber in Berlin.
In Berlin he met Rahel Levin and often visited her salon. As soon as Caroline von Humboldt visited the salon for the first time, Burgsdorff fell in love with her.
From November 1796 he lived with the Humboldts in Jena . In the summer of 1797 they went on a European trip together, which first led via Dresden to Vienna and then on a separate route to Paris .
At the beginning of 1798 Burgsdorff arrived in Paris with Christian Friedrich Tieck and initially set up his quarters with the Humboldts. In September 1798 he began a journey of several months to Spain and Portugal alone. When he returned to Paris in early 1799, Caroline von Humboldt ended the love affair.
He did not return home until Christmas 1800. When he came into closer contact with Ludwig Tieck in Berlin in 1801 , he invited him to Ziebingen with his wife and child for the winter of 1802, where they stayed for the next 17 years.
Throughout his life he promoted and supported Tieck and even went on a trip to England with him in 1817.
In 1807 Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein bought the property in Ziebingen from the Burgsdorffs, but granted them the right to live for the rest of his life. After Finckenstein's death in 1818, the young Burgsdorff family moved to Dresden.
family
In 1808 Wilhelm had Ernestine, b. von Burgsdorff (born January 27, 1791, Dresden, † November 29, 1820 in Dresden) married.
They had four daughters together; the youngest was Erdmuthe (born November 28, 1816 in Berlin, † March 3, 1849 in Reitwein).
In the year of his death, 1822, he married Friederike Senfft von Pilsach for the second time.
literature
- Günter de Bruyn : The Finckensteins. A family in the service of Prussia. btb-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-442-73227-1 , pp. 104-109.
- Alfons Fedor Cohn: Wilhelm von Burgsdorff. In: Euphorion . Volume 14, Leipzig, 1907, pp. 533-565.
- Dagmar von Gersdorff : Caroline von Humboldt. A biography. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17502-5 .
- Hermann Hettner: Burgsdorf, Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 617.
Individual evidence
- ^ D. von Gersdorff: Caroline von Humboldt. 2011, p. 50.
- ^ D. von Gersdorff: Caroline von Humboldt. 2011, p. 68.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgsdorff, Wilhelm Friedrich Theodor von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ziebingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1822 |
| Place of death | Dresden |