Heinrich Abeken
Heinrich Johann Wilhelm Rudolf Abeken ( born August 19, 1809 in Osnabrück, † August 8, 1872 in Berlin) was a German Protestant theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor.
Life
Family
Heinrich Abeken was the son of businessman and later senator of Osnabrück Wilhelm Ludwig Abeken. Then the mother died shortly after the birth of Henry 's only sister Bernhardine, the siblings grew up in the house of her uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken. Henry was in his first marriage with Mary Hutchings Thompson (1802-1836), daughter of an English officer and educator in the home Bunsen, married, but died a few months after the marriage. In his second marriage he was from 1866 to Hedwig von Olfers ( 1829-1919 ), daughter of the Director General of the Royal Museums of Berlin, Ignaz von Olfers, married. Heinrich Abeken left no children.
Career
Visits to the Real Gymnasium in Osnabrück closed Abeken 1827 from the High School and then studied Protestant theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In March 1831, he was awarded the Licentiate in Theology there. In the same year he traveled to Rome, where he worked as a private tutor in Christian Karl von Bunsen. At times, he also worked at the German Archaeological Institute. In 1834 he was preacher Legation of the Prussian embassy to the Holy See. 1841 Abeken visited England, by King Frederick William IV instructed to make arrangements for the establishment of an Anglican- Prussian bishopric community in Jerusalem under the auspices of Bunsen. In gratitude for his involvement in this affair of King Henry Abeken allowed to participate in the great Prussian expedition to the Nile (1842-1845) under the direction of Abeken - friend Richard Lepsius, with the Egyptology was established as a rigorous science in Germany. After his return, he accepted a position at the Prussian Legation in Rome.
In 1848 Abeken a calling in the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1853 he was appointed a Privy Councillor of Legation. Since 1862 he was one of the closest and most important employees of Otto von Bismarck. Heinrich Abeken was often employed by him with the drafting of official letters and therefore also called spring Bismarck. He stood high in the favor of King William I, he regularly accompanied on his travels and thereby guaranteed the connection between the King and the Prime Minister. 1866 Heinrich Abeken was promoted to first class advice. In addition, Abeken operated as an educational citizen, held widely acclaimed lectures and published brisk, among other things, he published anonymously in 1851 Babylon and Jerusalem, a devastating critique of the views of Countess Ida Hahn -Hahn.
In 1870 Heinrich Abeken experienced the height of his political activity as adviser to the king during the July crisis in Bad Ems: Abeken wrote the Ems Dispatch, Bismarck then edited aggravating. Your wording contributed to France declared war on Prussia and the beginning of the Franco-German War. Compared to the Kulturkampf went Abeken - with all loyalty - at a distance and retired as Bismarck's wrath.
Heinrich Abeken died of a stroke and was buried in the cemetery Dorotheenstädtischer. His estate is stored in the Political Archives of the Foreign Office and the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar.