Adolph von Knigge (1752-1796)
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- Name (English)
- Adolph von Knigge
- Short name
- Adolph Freiherr Knigge
- Year of birth
- 1752
- Year of death
- 1796
- Short Description
- "Knigge was born in Bredenbeck (now a part of Wennigsen, Lower Saxony) in the Electorate of Hanover as a member of the lesser nobility. When he was barely eleven, his mother died, and when his father died three years later the teenager inherited a large debt. His creditors took possession of the family property and assigned the boy a meagre pension of 500 thalers.
He studied law from 1769 to 1772 in Göttingen where he became a member of Corps Hannovera. He was allegedly initiated into Freemasonry in 1772 in Kassel, where he held a position as Court Squire (hofjunker) and Assessor of the War and Domains Exchequer. In 1777 he became Chamberlain at the Weimar court." - (en.wikipedia.org 02.11.2019) - Entity Encoding
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Ratrgeber: Kurt von Weißenfeld: "Der moderne Knigge" (o. J.)
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Object information
Image: Deutsches Kochbuchmuseum - CC BY-NC-SA
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