Carl Von Brühl
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Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Moritz Paul von Brühl (1772–1837) was a friend of
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, who, as the Superintendent general of the
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n royal theatres, was of some importance in the history of the development of the drama in
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. He was a member of the powerful German
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family.


Biography

In 1830, Brühl was appointed intendant-general of the royal museums.


Family

His father, , was a colonel in the French service who, upon the 1789 revolution there, left the country to become general inspector of roads in
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and
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. His mother, , renowned for her beauty and intellectual gifts, was the daughter of a French corporal. Carl von Brühl's paternal grandfather was
Heinrich von Brühl Heinrich, Count von Brühl (, 13 August 170028 October 1763), was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Electorate of Saxony, Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incumbenc ...
, a statesman at the court of
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and the
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. His daughter Elisabeth,
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to Queen consort Elisabeth Ludovika of Prussia, was married to
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and in 1862 one of the founders of Berlin's Army
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in
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.


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{{Theat-director-stub 1772 births 1837 deaths People from Żary County People from Brandenburg German theatre directors General directors of the Berlin State Opera 19th-century Prussian people