German diplomat
Kurd von Schlozer
(original name
Conrad Nestor von Schlozer
; 5 January 1822, in
Lubeck
,
Free City of Lubeck
? 13 May 1894, in
Berlin
,
Germany
) was an imperial German historian,
diplomat
and
German Ambassador to the United States
from 1871 to 1882.
Family
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Schlozer was the son of Lubeck merchant, and Russian Consul-General Karl von Schlozer. Like his older brother Nestor of Schlozer, he also was named for the Russian saint Nestor of Kiev, the author of the Chronicle of Nestor, who had published his grandfather, the court counselor and professor
August Ludwig Schlozer
.
Dorothea Schlozer
was his aunt.
Kurd von Schlozer remained unmarried and childless.
Life
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After visiting the
Katharineum
of Lubeck, and the study of oriental studies and history at
Hanoverian
Gottingen
and Berlin, Schlozer moved first to Paris and worked as a publicist.
Through the mediation of
Ernst Curtius
and the
Princess Augusta
, he was accepted without the customary legal training, into the Prussian diplomatic service.
For several years he worked in the
Foreign Ministry in Berlin
, and wrote several historical treatises in addition to his work, Chasot including the
Hanseatic League
, the German-Russian history and a biography of the Count.
As an author, he is attributed to the group of young
Lubeck
reformers
de:Jung-Lubeck
.
In 1857, he was sent to St. Petersburg as a second Secretary of Legation.
In 1863 he was in Copenhagen, and in 1864 was in Rome.
He was secretary of the Prussian ambassador at the Holy See,
Friedrich Adolf von Willisen
[
de
]
, and developed an extensive network of artists and church representatives.
In 1867, he was
Charge d'affaires
in a difficult political situation, between the Papal States and the Kingdom of Italy.
Following a mission on behalf of the
North German Confederation
to
Mexico
that led to the conclusion of a commerce and navigation treaty, Schlozer was appointed in 1871 as the first
charge d'affaires
of the German Empire in
Washington, D.C.
In letters and reports, he gave insights into the internal political situation of the
United States
. He maintained contact with German-American groups and individuals, including especially to
Carl Schurz
, and was universally liked.
In preparation for the resumption broken diplomatic relations between the Empire and the Holy See, he traveled to Rome in 1878 and 1881, and in 1882 was appointed as the Prussian envoy to Pope
Leo XIII
. In the preparation and implementation of the laws 1886/87, ending
Kulturkampf
,
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Schlozer experienced the peak of his diplomatic career.
A little later, after the dismissal of Bismarck, and probably at the instigation of
Friedrich von Holstein
, he retired in 1892.
Schlozer remained in Rome, and died shortly after his final return to Germany in Berlin in 1894. He was buried in the cemetery No. IV of the
Jerusalem Church
and
New Church
parishes on Bergmannstaße, where his tomb, designed by
Bernhard Sehring
today is maintained as a memorial grave of Berlin.
Works
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- Jugendbriefe.
Stuttgart 1920
- Petersburger Briefe.
Stuttgart 1921
- Romische Briefe.
Stuttgart 1912
- Mexikanische Briefe.
Stuttgart 1913
- Amerikanische Briefe.
Stuttgart 1925
- Letzte romische Briefe.
Stuttgart 1924
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