Gustav von Schlabrendorf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German writer (1750-1824)
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Place of Birth: Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
About Gustav von Schlabrendorf
- Gustav, Count of Schlabrendorf (22 March 1750 – 21 August 1824), described in various sources as a "citizen of the world" ("Weltbürger"), was a political author and an enlightenment thinker.
- During or shortly before the first part of 1789 he relocated to Paris from where he enjoyed a ringside seat for the unfolding phases of the French Revolution which, initially, he enthusiastically supported.
- He backed the revolutionary precepts of "Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood".
- He soon had reason to become mistrustful of the revolution's radicalisation, however, and during the "Terror" ("Terreur") period spent more than 17 months in prison, avoiding a terminal rendezvous with the guillotine only through an administrative oversight.
- He subsequently wrote several critical works about Napoléon Bonaparte.
- It was a reflection of his increasingly idiosyncratic lifestyle that by the 1820s he was becoming known as "The Hermit of Paris" (or, in certain more scholarly contemporary sources, "Eremita Parisiensis"): he was happy to endorse the soubriquet, on occasion using it to describe himself.
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