Wilhelm von Dönniges

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Wilhelm von Dönniges

Wilhelm (von) Dönniges (born January 13, 1814 in Kolbatz , Greifenhagen district , Pomerania , † January 4, 1872 in Rome ) was a German historian and diplomat in the service of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He became known through the duel over his daughter Helene von Dönniges .

Life

His parents were the Prussian Secret Government Councilor Heinrich Ferdinand Dönniges (1780-1856) and his wife Friederike Charlotte Calsow from Pomerania.

Dönniges first studied political science and history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1832 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . With a doctoral thesis with Leopold von Ranke , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then continued his historical studies as a collaborator of Rankes in Italy in 1838/39, where he discovered the books of Emperor Henry VII in Turin and published them in Berlin in 1839. In the same year he completed his habilitation in Berlin and took up lectures on constitutional law as a private lecturer. In 1841 he was appointed associate professor for political science in Berlin.

In 1847 he became the librarian of the Bavarian Crown Prince Maximilian II. Joseph (Bavaria) , whom he had known through Ranke since the mid-1840s and had given legal guidance. When he became king the following year due to his abdication, Dönniges decided to pursue a further career in the Bavarian service. He became a secret legation councilor in 1850 and was an influential ministerial advisor to the king from 1852 until his departure in 1856. In 1853 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . At the end of 1856 he entered the Bavarian diplomatic service and was initially attaché, from 1859 Chargé d'affaires in Turin at the court of the later Italian King Victor Emanuel II. The period from 1859 to 1862 he spent due to the development in Italy without special assignments Nice . From 1862 he became the chargé d'affaires of Bavaria in Switzerland with headquarters in Geneva , from 1864 in Bern, from where he was put up for disposition in Munich after the king's death until 1867. In 1867 he was again employed under King Ludwig II as envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister in Bern , in 1869 in extraordinary mission in Madrid and from 1870 as envoy in Florence, from where the Bavarian embassy there in 1871 with the Italian king was based in moved the new capital Rome.

Duel Lassalle versus Racowitza

The pistol duel between the German socialist leader Ferdinand Lassalle and the Romanian prince Janko von Racowitza (Iancu Racoviţă) from Wallachia on August 28, 1864 in the Carouge wood near Geneva was based on a demand made by Lassalle to Dönniges, because he was involved in the marriage desired by Lassalle did not want to allow his daughter Helene von Dönniges . The Romanian prince and admirer Helenes stepped in for the older father and accepted the demand, although he had never had a pistol in his hand before. Lassalle died three days later from the gunshot wound. His nephew, the historian Wilhelm Arndt and his son-in-law Eugen von Keyserling negotiated for von Dönniges as cartel holders . George Meredith processed the duel literarily in The Tragic Comedians .

family

He married Franziska Wolf (1823–1882), daughter of the businessman Joseph Wolff from Spandau, in Berlin in 1842 . The couple had two sons and five daughters, including:

  • Helene (March 21, 1843 - October 1, 1911), writer
⚭ Janco Gregor von Racowitza († 1865)
⚭ January 3, 1868 (divorced in 1873) Siegwart Friedmann (1842–1916)
⚭ Sergei von Schewitsch († September 27, 1911)
  • Margarethe (* February 22, 1846, † July 13, 1930), writer ⚭ Count Eugen von Keyserling (1832–1889)
  • Emma ⚭ Karl von Rumpler (1842–1898) Head of the Secret State and House Archives in Munich

Works

  • Commentatio de Geographia Heroditi cum tabula orbis terrarum ex ipsius opinione. Diss., Berlin 1835 ( digitized version ).
  • Acta Henrici VII. 2 volumes, Berlin 1839 ( volume 1 and volume 2 digitized at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
  • Yearbooks of the German Empire under the rule of King and Emperor Otto I from 951 to 973, Berlin 1839 ( digitized ).
  • Critique of the sources for the story of Heinrich VII des Luxmburgers , Berlin 1841 ( digitized version ).
  • German constitutional law and the German constitution. Volume 1: Historical development from Charlemagne's imperial crown up to the twelfth century, Berlin 1842 ( digitized version ).
  • The system of free trade and protective tariffs. Explained with special consideration for the German customs union , Berlin 1847.
  • The German shipping file and the differential customs issue explained with the help of official sources , Berlin 1848 ( digitized version )
  • Old Scottish and Old English folk ballads. In addition to an afterthought about the old Minstrel song , Munich 1852.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 15/141
  2. ↑ Hans Körner "The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and its Members" in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Vol. 47 (1984), pp. 299–398. Online at: http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/zblg/kapitel/zblg47_kap28
  3. ^ Racowitza had been a member of the Corps Neoborussia Berlin since 1856 . Kösener corps lists 1910, 12/118
  4. ↑ (Ger. The tragic comedians ) Manesse Bibl. D. World lit. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7175-2132-7
personal data
SURNAME Dönniges, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolbatz , Greifenhagen district, Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1872
Place of death Rome