Count, then (since 1822) Prince Hermann-Ludwig- Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau , October 30, 1785 , Muskau Manor, Upper Luszica - February 4, 1871 , Branitz Palace near Cottbus , Lower Puddle ) - a German writer , gardener and traveler, the largest landowner in Luzia .
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Biography
Born in a large family of the Silesian Count Pückler and his 15-year-old wife from the aristocratic family of Kallenberg. From a young age he traveled extensively throughout Europe, including on foot. He lived in London for a long time. Beethoven dedicated the Moonlight Sonata to one of his lovers - Juliet Gvichchardi .
In 1813 he was a major in Russian service. From 1817 to 1826 married to the daughter of the Prussian chancellor Gardenberg . In the 1830s visited Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Turkey, the first of the Europeans described the ruins of the ancient temples of Nubia . He returned to Europe with an Abyssinian concubine named Mahbuba.
Count Pückler belonged to the circle of friends of E. T. A. Hoffmann , who brought him out under his own name in the novel "The Empty House" (1817). The literary descriptions of his travels and adventures brought the prince fame in Germany. Like R.F. Burton , he shocked contemporaries with unconventional views and reasonings in the spirit of pantheism . At the end of his life he was a hereditary member of the Prussian chamber of masters. The name of Prince Pückler, the Germans call tricolor ice cream , which he introduced into use.
Pückler 's work Andeutungen ueber Landschaftsgärtnerei contributed to the success of gardening in Germany. In England and Ireland, the prince gained deep knowledge in landscape management, as evidenced by the Muskau's largest landscape park in Central Europe , which he recognized as a World Heritage Site in 2004.
Works
- Anonymous “Letters of the Dead ” ( German: Briefe eines Verstorbenen , 1830–31)
- "Tutti Frutti, aus den Papieren des Verstorbenen" (1834)
- Jugendwanderungen (1835)
- "Semilassos vorletzter Weltgang, erster Gang: Europa" (1835)
- Semilasso in Afrika (1836)
- Der Vorläufer (1838)
- Sudöstlicher Bildersaal (1840)
- Aus Mehemed Alis Reich (1844)
- Die Rückkehr (1846–48)
- Briefwechsel und Tagebücher (letters and diary, 1873–76)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118597019 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
Literature
- Ludmilla Assing. Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Hamburg, 1873.
- Eduard Petzold. Fürst Pückler-Muskau in seiner Bedeutung für die bildende Gartenkunst. Leipzig, 1874.