Count Karl von Schlitz, in full: Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Hermann Ferdinand von Schlitz, genannt von Görtz (15 February 1822, Schlitz - 7 December 1885, Schlitz) was a German politician and Standesherr in the

Grand Duchy of Hesse The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...

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He acceded to the Standesherrschaft in 1839, at the age of seventeen, then went to

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

, where he studied

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

and graduated with a Doctoral degree in law. He had also studied ancient languages, which enabled him to assist

Otto von Böhtlingk Otto von Böhtlingk (russian: Оттон Николаевич Бётлингк, ''Otton Nikolayevich Byotlingk''; 30 May 1815 – 1 April 1904) was a Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. His ''magnum opus'' was a Sanskrit-German dicti ...

with his translation of

Shakuntala Shakuntala (Sanskrit: ''Śakuntalā'') is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. Her story is told in the '' Adi Parva'' of the ancient Indian epic ''Mahabharata'' and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaption bein ...

Kālidāsa Kālidāsa (''fl.'' 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and t ...

From 1844 to 1847, he made a trip around the world; publishing his observations and experiences in a three-volume set. From 1850 to 1861 and again from 1864 to 1866, he was Hesse's Ambassador to the

Prussian Court The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Re ...

. As a Hessian nobleman, he was a hereditary member of the Upper Chamber of the . During the

revolutions of 1848 The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europea ...

, he was a member of the

Vorparlament The Frankfurt Parliament (german: Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally ''Frankfurt National Assembly'') was the first freely elected parliament for all German states, including the German-populated areas of Austria-Hungary, elected on 1 Ma ...

s.Bundesarchiv: Mitglieder des Vorparlaments und des Fünfzigerausschusses
(PDF-Datei; 79 kB) After the March Revolution, his hereditary positions were lost, but they were later regained and he once again served in the Upper Chamber from 1856 until his death. He was its Vice-President from 1866 to 1875, and its President from 1875 to 1885. His son

Emil Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

, who was a sculptor by profession, followed in his father's footsteps and served as President of the Upper Chamber from 1900 to 1914.

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