Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid

Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid

M, #116158, b. 4 September 1763, d. 1830

Edited=9 Jun 2005. Last Edited=20 Feb 2021

    Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid was born on 4 September 1763 at Prague, Czech Republic. He was christened on 4 September 1763 at St. Niklas, Prague, Czech Republic.  He was the son of Philipp Christian Graf von Sternberg and Augusta Leopoldine Gräfin von Manderscheid-Blankenheim. He married Maria Franziska Sofie Carol Gräfin von Schonborn-Heussenstamm, daughter of Eugen Erwin Schönborn and Marie Elisabeth Prinzessin zu Salm-Salm, on 23 September 1787 at Vienna, Austria.

He died in 1830.

    Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid gained the title of Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid.

Children of Franz Josef Adam Johann Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid and Maria Franziska Sofie Carol Gräfin von Schonborn-Heussenstamm

-1. Leopoldine Gräfin von Sternberg-Manderscheid+ b. 10 Jul 1791, d. 15 Dec 1870

-2. Maria Augusta Franziska Gräfin von Sternberg-Manderscheid+ b. 19 Jun 1793, d. 1820

-3. Christine Gräfin von Sternberg-Manderscheid+ b. 1798, d. 1840

-4. Erwine Gräfin von Sternberg-Manderscheid+ b. 1803, d. 1840

-5. Franziska Gräfin von Sternberg-Manderscheid+ b. 1805, d. 1845

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Sternberg, also Sternberg-Manderscheid, Franz Joseph Graf (art lover , born September 4, 1763, died April 5, 1830). The eldest son of Count Philipp Christian from his marriage to Auguste Countess Manderscheid , with whom the ancient Manderscheid family died out in 1811 , whereupon this Sternberg line added the name Manderscheid to its name and spelled Sternberg-Manderscheid . Count Franz Joseph spent his youth on the Rhine, where his mother went as heiress of Manderscheid's property located on the Rhine. The famous Canonicus Wallraf was in Colognehis teacher, who introduced him to the study of old and new art and thus awakened in him that zeal for collecting and that joy in the forms of art which would later bear such beautiful fruit. The young count also had a keen eye for the phenomena of nature and the Bohemian Museum has many fossils and volcanic structures from the Eifel in its collections, which he collected during his years. When he got older, he went on the usual cavalier tour, on which he had got to know France and the Netherlands and from which he had returned in 1787. After his marriage, which took place in the same year, he took up his permanent residence in Prague, where a livelier scientific life was beginning to develop. Dobner[Vol. III, p. 331], Dobrowsky [Volume III, p. 334], Pelzel [Vol. XXI, p. 444], had on historical, Born [vol. I, p. 71] and Dr. Joh. Mayer [Volume XVIII, p. 127, No. 59] developed a stimulating activity in the field of natural sciences and Count Franz Joseph soon joined this circle and not as an idle Participants, but rather as active workers and promoters. Restricting himself wisely, since with an activity extending in all directions only fragmentation or superficiality would result, he chose art and its history for his actual study and developed these studies on his own collection of engravings, which he brought into a chronological overview, Later, after he began to collect a collection of Bohemian coins, he studied coinage. So it was initially at his suggestion that in 1796 a private society of patriotic art lovers was formed from the middle of the Bohemian nobility, which mainly from its own funds founded a picture gallery for the benefit of the art pupils and in 1800 an academy of fine arts. In the beginning he had traveled around the country himself in order to acquire the here and there hidden and neglected art treasures for the gallery. Initially he worked as a consultant for this association, which was responsible for the care of art in Bohemia; but in 1802 he became president of the same, and was equally concerned with promoting the gallery and the academy. The Bohemian Society of Sciences, to which he had been an honorary member as an excellent coin connoisseur since 1796, counted him among its most ardent members, as he regularly attended the meetings of the historical class and, moreover, kept the society's coffers. He devoted no lesser participation to the patriotic museum, founded in 1810, in whose enrichment he had a substantial share from his collections, until he finally made the most precious thing that he himself possessed as a present. With his predominant tendency towards scientific studies he kept as far as possible from public affairs and only allowed himself to be used for special broadcasts in exceptional cases. In 1790 he was probably also a member of the von Leopold II. appointed Estates Landtag, which is reproached for the fact that the leading estates: clergy and nobility, although the events that took place in western Europe should be a clue to them, only to their special advantage, to the establishment of the feudal system with old prints were considered; but soon he turned completely away from these matters, which to him were not very sympathetic, and devoted himself exclusively to those objects, the quiet, active care of which a man of intellect, taste, and ability could take up and occupy just as pleasantly as useful. In 1824 he was appointed Chief Chamberlain of the Kingdom of Bohemia. With his regular way of life and strong appearance, one could probably expect a higher age than he had reached, but a neglected catarrh that kept coming back haunted him at the age of 67. His artistic estate was very important; his collection of copper engravings amounted to 72,000 numbers, in chronological order from the first attempts at woodcuts down to our times; on the back of the sheets those works were listed which mention the sheet or contain its description. His library showing the most important numismatic and archaeological works from abroad, counted over 10,000 volumes, as well as several rare manuscripts and incunabula. His coin collection, which consisted of three divisions, the Greek, Roman, and Bohemian, constituted a treasure of the rarest kind. Eckhel had the first two divisions even used for his classic work; the last division, however, which was unparalleled in terms of wealth and completeness, and exhibited hundreds of precious coins, which were otherwise unknown and also not represented in other collections, he had in 1830, shortly before his in the same year died, given to the Bohemian National Museum on the occasion of the celebration of his 50th anniversary as a collector. He also owned the ancient statue of Socrates with the poison cup in hand, once in the Villa Giustiniani, the original sketch of the holy family by Raphael in the Munich gallery, and several other paintings of great value which are now in the Prague Gallery. Although he lacked neither the ability nor the leisure to be a writer, he made too high demands on his writing to step out of his modesty. He only published the following in print: the annual speeches to the students of the Academy from 1804–1811, and 1813–1828; then two essays in the “ Negotiations of the Kings. Bohemian Society of Sciences ”:“ Statement about two old coins ”[vol. II, pp. 3 and 7], and “On the current state of patriotic coinage in Bohemia” [Vol. IV, p. 1], and a numismatic article in the " Monthly of the Society of the Fatherland Museum“[1828]. In contrast, his handwritten legacy is of unusual importance and contains a wealth of historical and critical remarks on the entire history of coinage and the fine arts in Bohemia. He donated it to the patriotic museum and thereby only increased the value of the donation of the Bohemian coin collection. Soon after his death, the yearbooks of the patriotic (Bohemian) museum contained a selection of aphorisms on art and the artistic profession from the Count's annual lectures mentioned above, which show that he was the capable caretaker and connoisseur of art. His biographer describes him as a cavalier to whom all selfish purposes and material motivations were alien; likewise every ambition, every pursuit of fame, power or influence in society. In doing so he was constantly active; the urge to ennoble himself and his fellow men by awakening the spirit, by spreading science, art, industry, custom and religion, never tire him. He was a Patriot in the highest sense of the word . The magnificent collection of copper engravings, which was auctioned in Dresden on May 4, 1840, was described by JGA Frenzel , head of the royal collection of copper engravings in Dresden, and this description is contained in three volumes under the title: "Collection of copper engravings and hand drawings of the deceased Count Franz von Sternberg- Manderscheid zu Prague ”appeared in print. Count Franz had been Countess Schönborn with Franziska since 1787marries. The wife had preceded her painting by several years in death, for she had already died on October 20th, 1825. From this marriage came only one daughter Leopoldine , later Franz Graf Sylva-Taroucca married . With her, the Sternberg-Manderscheid line became extinct .

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