John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Johann Friedrich von Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt ( born January 8, 1721 Rudolstadt, † July 10, 1767 ibid ) was from 1744 to 1767 Ruling Prince of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg came from the house.

Life

Johann Friedrich was the only son of Prince Friedrich Anton of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt and his first wife Sophie Wilhelmine, nee Princess of Saxe -Coburg -Saalfeld. The prince was educated from the age of four by private tutors. At age nine, he was awarded an Electoral Saxon officer's commission. Johann Friedrich was sent 1737-1741 on an educational trip. At the University of Strasbourg, he attended lectures in theology at the University of Utrecht and lectures in mathematics and physics. Likewise, King George II of Great Britain and Ireland could be consulted in Utrecht. In 1742 the Prince took part in the coronation of Emperor Charles VII in Frankfurt instead of his father. The symposium will was complicated and took place in Frankfurt Cathedral. During his trip to France was Johann Friedrich, who dominated the French language, with the ideas of the Enlightenment in contact. 1744 took over the Prince at the age of 23 years, the Principality.

The contracts concluded by his father mainly in exterior renovations of Heidecksburg was Johann Friedrich continue inside with the decoration with frescoed ceilings and lintels. By around 1750 by Gottfried Heinrich Krohne finished a ballroom today scoring the most important internal architectures of the Rococo in Germany State Hall was created. The destroyed in the fire of 1735 music collection, let the prince be replaced by the construction of a new collection, which he especially Georg Gebel committed, set to music at least 9 opera libretti and some 100 symphonies, partitas and concerts, for which he was the prince in 1746 the title of a concert- master 1750 of Title Capell - Meister was awarded. 1754 Christian Gotthelf Scheinpflug new court music of Prince and composed for all court events. 1746, Johann Friedrich the theological seminary and pursued the establishment of a sizable public library. He has enhanced its collections through his private library and set it down in 1751 to the public once a week. The holdings of the Princely Public Library, founded in 1748 Rudolstadt he made through the purchase of scientific literature, but also many valuable books, including incunabula and oriental manuscripts, greatly improve. They are now mostly part of the city Rudolstadt Historical Library, part of the castle library Heidecksburg.

Johann Friedrich issued on October 4, 1760 Georg Heinrich Macheleid the privilege for a porcelain factory, where he remained as co-CEO and exists as elders Volkstedter porcelain factory until today. The prince sponsored the Commercial accordance with the teaching of the Mercantilism. On January 20 In 1764 he was the occasion of the centenary of the putative high school school building officially explain to high school and this Friedericianum Add an apprenticeship of mathematics and natural philosophy. The solemn ceremony lived next door to the prince in the entire court.

Since Johann Friedrich left only two daughters, in 1767 his uncle succeeded him as Prince Ludwig Günther II in the government. His son, Hereditary Prince Frederick Charles had married in 1763 Johann Friedrich's eldest daughter Friederike.

Marriage and issue

Johann Friedrich married on November 19, 1744 in Eisenach Princess Bernhardine of Saxe- Weimar- Eisenach ( 1724-1757 ). From this marriage the following children come from:

• Friederike (1745-1778)

• Daughter ( † / * 1746 )
• Son ( † / * 1747 )
• Sophie Ernestine (1749-1754)
• Wilhelmine (1751-1780)

• Henriette Charlotte (1752-1756)