Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg ( German: Christian II. Von Anhalt-Bernburg , also Christian the Other ( Christian der Andere ) or the Younger ( der Jüngere ); August 11, 1599 , Amberg , Upper Palatinate - September 21, 1656 , Bernburg ) - Prince Anhalt Bernburg from the Askaniev dynasty.
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For 35 years (1621–1656), Prince Christian kept a diary of 23 volumes and 17,400 hand-written pages and is considered both in quantity and in quality to be a unique source of information on the history of the Thirty Years War .
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Biography
Christian the Younger - the son of Prince Christian I and Anna Bentheim-Teklenburgskaya, was born in Amberg Palace, where his father lived, holding the post of governor of the Upper Palatinate . Christian II received an excellent education and spoke fluently in French and Italian . In the years 1608-1609, he studied with his desaous cousin Johann Casimir in Geneva , where they were accompanied by two clerks : Marcus Friedrich Wendelin and Peter von Sebottendorf. Christian also traveled to France, Italy, and England for educational purposes .
In the adult years of Christianity, the Thirty Years' War came with all its horrors and hardships, in connection with which the prince reflects in his diary about "his fateful fate." For him, the war began with the Battle of White Mountain (1620), the defeat that led to the imperial disgrace and exile of Father Christian I. Christian the Younger, who commanded two regiments on the side of his father, was also captured, but he managed to gain the favor of Emperor Ferdinand II in Vienna and return to Bernburg in 1621. On the recommendation of his uncle, Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Kötensky , Christian II was admitted to the Fruitful Society under the name "Unchanged" ( Der Unveränderliche ).
After the death of his father in April 1630, Christian II succeeded him in the principality. Both the prince pursued by failures, and his country had to endure much grief during the war years. In the first year of his reign, Anhalt-Bernburg was ravaged by the well-known ferocity of the mounted troops of Heinrich Golk . The epidemic of the plague claimed the lives of 1,700 citizens. In 1636, despite the heroic courage of Hoffmarshal Burkhard von Erlach , the Bernburg Palace was defeated.
Christian II is buried in the tomb of his father built by the palace church of St. Aegidius .
Descendants
Prince Christian II was married to Eleanor Sofia Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1603-1675), daughter of the Duke Johann Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg . The spouses gave birth to 15 children, of which only a few reached adulthood:
- Beringer (1626-1627), Crown Prince of Anhalt of Bernburg
- Sofia (1627)
- Joachim Ernst (1629), Crown Prince of Anhalt of Bernburg
- Christian (1631), Crown Prince of Anhalt of Bernburg
- Erdman Gideon (1632–1649), Crown Prince of Anhalt of Bernburg
- Bogislav (1633-1634)
- Victor I Amadeus (1634–1718), Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, married to Countess Elizabeth of the Palatinate-Zweibrucken (1642–1677)
- Eleanor Gedwig (1635–1685), Canoness of the Gundersheim Monastery
- Ernestine Augustus (1636–1659)
- Angelica (1639–1688)
- Anna Sophia (1640–1704), married to Count George Friedrich Solms-Sonnenwald (1626–1688)
- Karl Ursinus (1642-1660)
- Ferdinand Christian (1643-1645)
- Mary (1645-1655)
- Anna Elizabeth (1647–1680), married to Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Elsi (1652–1704)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119130947 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Johann Christoph Beckmann: Historie des Fürstenthums Anhalt , 7 Tle., Zerbst 1710 (Ndr. Dessau 1995).
- Hans Butzmann: Ein Buch aus dem Besitz Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg in der Stadtbücherei Ballenstedt. Bernburg 1936.
- Ex Libris Christian I. und Christian II. von Bernburg . Katalog der Ausstellung. Museum Schloss Bernburg, 1993.
- Andreas Herz: 'Ma fatale destinée' - Krisen und Leiderfahrungen Fürst Christians II. von Anhalt-Bernburg in seinen Tagebüchern und anderen Zeit- und Lebensdokumenten . In: Passion, Affekt und Leidenschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003 (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung).
- Gottlieb Krause (Hrsg.): Das Tagebuch Christians des Jüngeren, Fürsten zu Anhalt. Leipzig 1855.
- Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst: Fürst Christian der Andere und seine Beziehungen zu Innerösterreich. Graz: Leuschner & Lubensky, 1874