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POLLNITZ, KARL LUDWIG, FREIHERR VON (1692-1775)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 6 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLLNITZ, KARL LUDWIG, FREIHERR VON (1692-1775) , German adventurer and writer, was born at Issum on the 25th of February 1692. His father, Wilhelm Ludwig von
Pollnitz
  (d. 1693), was in the military service of the elector of Brandenburg, and much of his son's youth was passed at the electoral
court
  in Berlin. He was a man of restless and adventurous disposition, unscrupulous even for the age in which he lived, visited many of the European courts, and served as a soldier in Austria, Italy and Spain. Returning to Berlin in 1735 he obtained a position in the
household
  of King Frederick William I. and afterwards in that of Frederick the
Great
 , with whom he appears to have been a
great
  favourite; and he died in Berlin on
the 23rd of June 1775.
Pollnitz
 's Memoires (Liege, 1734), which were translated into German (Frankfort, 1735), give interesting glimpses of his life and the people whom he met, but they are very untrustworthy. He also wrote Nouveaux mmoires (
Amsterdam
 , 1737) ; Etat abrege de is tour de Saxe sous le regne d'Auguste III. (Frankfort, 1734; Ger. trans.,
Breslau
 , 1736) ; and Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des quatres derniers souverains de la maison de Brandenbourg, published by F. L. Brunn (Berlin, 1791; Ger. trans., Berlin, 1791). Perhaps his most popular works are La Saxe galante (
Amsterdam
 , 1734), an account of the private life of
Augustus
  the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland; and Histoire secrete de la duchesse d'Hanovre, epouse de Georges I. (London, 1732). There is an English
translation
  of the Memoires (London, 1738-1739). See P. von Pollnitz, Stammtafeln der Familie von Pollnitz (Berlin, 1894) ; and J. G.
Droysen
 , Geschichte der preussischen Politik, pt. iv. (
Leipzig
 , 1870).


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