Camille of Renesse-Breidbach

Camille Maximilien Frédéric, Count de Renesse-Breidbach (9 July 1836 in

, entrepreneur and author.

De Renesse was born in 1836 at Brussels to an aristocratical family of

.

Camille married Countess

.

Between 1882 and 1884 he put his vision to reality by letting build the Hôtel Kursaal de la Maloja (nowadays Maloja Palace). But since just a few days after the grand opening a cholera epidemic broke out in nearby Italy, Count de Renesse had to file for bankruptcy after six months. Furthermore, Countess Marvina died of a so-called "fat heart" in Basel in the same autumn. Nonetheless the hotel remained a lucrative location for Europe's rich people in the following decades. In 1891, Stanford University completed Encina Hall, a dormitory inspired by the Hôtel Kursaal de la Maloja's architecture.^[1]

For a long time a rumour has got abroad that Count de Renesse, being drunk, fell off his residence, the Belvedere tower above the hotel, into the

valley; in fact he moved to Nice where he wrote some Christian books; there he died in 1904.

Bibliography

• Jesus Christ: His Apostles and Disciples in the Twentieth Century

See also

• Castle of Renesse

External links

• The Renesse Affair - Article about the Count and the Maloja Palace (in German)

References