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Persoonlijke gegevens Ludwig Karl Johann Erdmann von Pückler von Pückler-Muskau ; count 

• Hij is geboren op 12 juli 1754 in Branitz.
• (Christened) .

  Ludwig Karl Johann Erdmann Hermann

• (Nickname) .

  Hermann

• Hij is overleden op 16 januari 1811 in Muskau, hij was toen 56 jaar oud.
• Een kind van August Heinrich Graf von Pückler en Lucie Charlotte Freiin von Grote
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Ludwig Karl Johann Erdmann von Pückler von Pückler-Muskau ; count

Hij is getrouwd met Clementine Kunigunde Charlotte Olympia Luise von Callenberg.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 27 december 1784, hij was toen 30 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler  1785-1871
2. Auguste Charlotte Hermine Olympia Blanka von Pückler  1792-1834 
3. Agnes Ursula Luitgardis Clara von Pückler  1794-???? 
4. Klementine Gräfin von Pückler  1790-1847 

Notities over Ludwig Karl Johann Erdmann von Pückler von Pückler-Muskau ; count

Sachsischer Geheimrat

     A "unified, idealised nature" was the type of park that the writer
and landscape architect Count Hermann von Pückler-Muskau had in mind in 1815 when he suggested the idea to the residents of the town Muskau on River Neiße. The ideals of aesthetics and harmony modelled on the English landscaped gardens were to be commemorated for the first time in Europe.
The enterprising and adventurous man was given to wine, women, horses, a grandiose life style, ice-creams and festivities and an expansive habitat. His inclinations only proved that Count Pückler was a man of utmost aesthetic sensibility and creative impulse. Only a man like him could have created the wonderful parks of Bad Muskau, Branitz and Babelsberg with gently sloping hills, bridged-over ponds and stone architecture nestling in vast forests.
Count Pückler-Muskau was born on October 30, 1785 to a family with an ancient lineage. His father, described as the grumpy and miserly Count Erdmann von Pückler, married the 14-year old heiress to Muskau, Klementine von Callenberg. The marriage was a disaster from the beginning and ended in a divorce after 15 years. In 1811 his father, who had frittered away his inheritance as well as that bequeathed to the children by their mother, passed away. His son Hermann, after a difficult childhood, read law for a few semesters, then tried his luck in the army and went on his first travels. In 1815 after recovering from a long illness, he finally took up the reins in Muskau himself and in 1817 the handsome charmer married the imperial countess Lucie von Pappenheim, daughter of the Prussian chancellor Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, who was equally fond of luxurious living. The expenses incurred by the couple soon amounted to three or four times their income. Their dreams of an inheritance were soon shattered when Hardenberg who had also been married three times, bequeathed his assets to his mistress, his debts, however, to his daughter.  The couple was officially divorced and Count Pückler went to England in search of a rich heiress who would set him back on his feet financially. In vain. Later, however, the journey did pay off: Rahel von Varnhagen who held her literary salon for the Romantics and "Young Germany", published the Count's letters to his sweetheart under the macabre title "Letters of a Deceased"("Briefe eines Verstorbenen").  But even Count Pückler's numerous travel writings, such as "Südöstliche Bildersaal" and his Garden Book did not bring enough money to cover the couple's expenses. Finally they sold Muskau and moved to the estate of Branitz near Cottbus, which belonged to Pückler's father. The passionate landscape architect immediately started laying out a park there. He built sepulchral mounds in the shape of pyramids for his wife and himself. His wife died in 1854. Count Pückler himself continued his travels, intercepted by amorous adventures, for many more years. At the age of 81 he rode side by side with the King of Prussia William I in the war against Austria.  Count Pückler's life spanned a period filled with radical political, economic and social changes: it began before the French Revolution and ended on February 4, 1871, three weeks after the proclamation of William I as German Emperor. He met nearly all the leading public figures of his era. He had breakfast with Sir Walter Scott and the Viceroy of Egypt, he met Beau Brummel and Lady Hester Stanhope, Laetitita Bonaparte and Ferdinand de Lesseps, Metternich and Bismarck, to name just a few.   Goethe praised his "Letters of a Deceased", and Heinrich Heine translated his "Notes on Landscape Gardening". The hilarious, though occasionally lengthy, descriptions of such encounters with his contemporaries make Count Pückler's books interesting reading even today.

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