Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid | |
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Frankfurt am Main |
Franz Erwein, Count of Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1776–1840) was a German art collector and politician from the
Life
His parents were the Damian Hugo Erwein Franz von Schönborn (1738–1817), a chamberlain and member of the counsel from
In 1806 the county of
On his wife's death in 1813, Schönborn moved to Schloss Gaibach, rebuilding it between 1800 and 1830. He also added a park in the English style, in which he built a Constitution Column. The column was designed by Schönborn's friend Leo von Klenze and commemorated Maximilian I Joseph's 1818 grant of a Constitution to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1828 he also completed a Constitution Hall in the castle, painted at von Klenze's suggestion by Carl Heinrich Hermann and Jakob Götzenberger, two of Peter von Cornelius's pupils. Schönborn's collection ranked alongside Ludwig's own as two of the most notable ones in southern Germany.
As a state counselor of Bavaria, Schönborn was a member of the state's Imperial Council from 1819 until his death. He sometimes served as Vice President of the Privy Council, in which capacity he represented the Council at the 1819 funeral of Anton Eggstein, the first Bavarian member of parliament to die in office.[1] Schönborn was also hereditarily appointed as a member of the first chamber of the Nassau Landstände according to the Nassau Ducal Edict of 29 October 1831. He was elected from 1832 to 1837.
References
- ^ Verhandlung der Kammer der Bayerischen Abgeordneten, 1819, Band 13, Nachruf Anton Eggstein
Bibliography
- Constantin von Wurzbach: Schönborn, Erwein Franz Damian Graf. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Band 31. Verlag L. C. Zamarski, Wien 1876, S. 135 (Digitalisat).
- Angelika Burger: Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Franz Erwein Graf von. In: ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3, S. 396 f. (Digitalisat).
- Katharina Bott: Ein Kunstsammler zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts: Franz Erwein Graf von Schönborn (1776–1840), Verlag für Geisteswissenschaften, Weimar, 1993; Rezension zum Buch
- Cornelia Rösner: Nassauische Parlamentarier: Nassauische Parlamentarier. Teil 1. Der Landtag des Herzogtums Nassau 1818 - 1866, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4