Alois Friedrich von Brühl
Alois ( Aloys ) Friedrich Graf von Brühl ( born July 31, 1739 in Dresden, † January 31, 1793 in Berlin) was a high official in Poland and later playwright in the Electorate of Saxony.
Life
He came from the charges collected in the title of Count in the 18th century Saxon- Thuringian nobility of Brühl, was the son of Heinrich Graf von Brühl and Maria Anna, née Countess of Kolowrat Krakowsky ( 1717-1762 ). To secure the power of the Father in Poland, had his son as a child in the Polish nobility ( szlachta ) record. At the age of eleven years, the talented Alois von Brühl was already appointed governor ( Starosta ) in Warsaw, later he served as a royal butler ( 1761-1763 ) and Krongeneralfeldzeugmeisters. From 1763 to 1788 he was General of the Royal Artillery. The father sent him many times on diplomatic missions. Brühl seemed very positive impact on the development in Warsaw and the artillery being. After the death of his father in 1763, he lost all his public offices in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Electorate of Saxony. He received the Polish authorities after the coronation of Stanisław August Poniatowski partially back. 1776, he founded an artillery school in Warsaw. He was also charity work. During his time in Warsaw usually he stayed in his north outside the city on the Vistula embankment Palais in Młociny (now in the Warsaw district of Bielany located ) on. In 1790 he moved from Warsaw to his rule Pförten. Here et increasingly devoted himself to his passion for the theater. He wrote numerous comedies, in which he also appeared as an actor himself for his private Pförtener stage.
" Alois Friedrich ..., Polish Kronfeldzeugmeister, which was characterized by beauty and physical strength as a painter, mathematician and poet "
Family
First, politically motivated marriage he was married to Marianna Klementyna Potocki, daughter of Kiev voivode Franciszek Potocki Salezy. The wedding took place in 1760 on the Potocki Palace in Krystynopol (now Tscherwonohrad ) instead. In 1780 he married after the death of his first wife, whose sprawling cousin Maria Teresa Potocki and after her death in 1783 Josefa Anna Christiana Countess Schaffgotsch. From the second marriage was born one daughter, Theresa ( born November 8, 1784 † March 8, 1844 ). They married on September 5, 1808 the Count František Antonín by Paula von Thun und Hohenstein ( * October 3, 1786; † January 18, 1873 ). From the marriage with Schaffgotsch came Friedrich August Graf von Brühl ( 1791-1856 ).
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski wrote at the beginning of the 1880s, a historical novel about Brühl: The Governor of Warsaw.
Works
- Theatrical amusements, 5 volumes, 1785-1790