Carl von Brühl

Carl von Brühl
1796 portrait by Anton Graff
Born	(1772-05-18)18 May 1772 Pförten, Neumark, Brandenburg-Prussia
Died	9 August 1837(1837-08-09) (aged 65) Berlin, Prussia

Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Moritz Paul von Brühl (1772–1837) was a friend of Goethe, who, as the Superintendent general of the Prussian royal theatres, was of some importance in the history of the development of the drama in Germany. He was a member of the powerful German von Brühl family.

Biography

In 1830, Brühl was appointed intendant-general of the royal museums.

Family

Hans Moritz von Brühl, the father of Carl, in a 1796 portrait by Anton Graff

Brühl was the son of Hans Moritz von Brühl (1746–1811) and his wife, Margarethe Schleierweber. Hans Moritz von Brühl was a colonel in the French service who, upon the 1789 revolution there, left the country to become general inspector of roads in Brandenburg and Pomerania. Margarethe Schleierweber von Brühl, renowned for her beauty and intellectual gifts, was the daughter of a French corporal. Carl von Brühl's paternal grandfather was Heinrich von Brühl, a statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brühl, Heinrich, Count von". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.