Werner von Haxthausen
politician and writer (1780-1842)
Werner Moritz Maria, Count von Haxthausen (pseudonym: Sigurt Albrock; 18 July 1780 – 30 April 1842) was a German civil servant, landowner and philologist. He was an older brother of August von Haxthausen and a step-uncle of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Life
Werner von Haxthausen was born in Bökendorf near Brakel. He was one of eight sons of the Drost of the Paderborn district of Lichtenau, Werner Adolph, Baron von Haxthausen, lord of Thienhausen, Bökendorf, Abbenburg, and Bellersen (near Brakel), and Baroness Marie Anne von Wendt-Papenhausen. He also had nine sisters.
Youth, Studies, Wars of Liberation
From 1799 to 1801, Haxthausen was educated in the family of the poet Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg in Münster, with whom his half-sister Therese, who married Droste zu Hülshoff, had contact within the Münster circle. He studied law and medicine at the University of Münster and, from 1801, in Prague; from 1803 to 1804, he lived in Bohemia. After temporarily taking over a cathedral prebend in Paderborn, he turned to the study of Oriental studies in Paris, Göttingen, and Halle.
As a member of the "Tugendbund" around Wilhelm von Dörnberg, and involved in Dörnberg's 1810 conspiracy against French rule in the Kingdom of Westphalia, he had to flee to England, where he worked as a doctor under the cover name "Dr. Albrock," and participated in the Wars of Liberation as an adjutant to General Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn.
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