Johann von Türckheim () (10 November 1749 – 28 January 1824) was a French politician and a German diplomat.
Family
Jean de Turckheim was the oldest son of Baron Jean de Turckheim (1707–1793) and a brother of
Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim
Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (3 November 1752 – 10 July 1831) was a French politician.
Mayors of Strasbourg
1752 births
1831 deaths
Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration
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. His nephew,
Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim
Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (10 December 1780, in Strasbourg – 13 December 1850, in Paris) was a French politician.
He conducted a thwarted campaign for deputy, 27 February 1824, in the 4th electoral district of Bas-Rhin against Georges Huma ...
, was the eighth mayor of Strasbourg.
Life
He was elected as a deputy of Strasbourg to the
Estates-General in 1789. Initially supportive of the revolution, he became disenchanted with its goals after the violence of July and August 1790 and became convinced that the unrest was part of a broader plan to overthrow the king and establish a radical republic. After a short term as mayor of Strasbourg, he left France, and offered his services to the Duke of Hesse, whom he served for several years, in particular as envoy to
Rome
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. He died in Altorf (
Ettenheim
Ettenheim () is a city in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
Ettenheim was founded in the 8th century by Eddo, bishop of Strasbourg, and the was founded at about that time. Ettenheim received German town law, town rights in ...
), in the
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden () was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire until 1918.
The duchy's 12th-century origins were as a Margravia ...
in 1824.
Jean Turckheim
Works
* ''De Jure legislatorio Merovaeorum et Carolingorum Galliae regum circa sacra''. 1771, 1772
* History of the House of Hesse.
See also
* List of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789
This list aims to display alphabetically the 1,145 titular deputies (291 deputies of the clergy, 270 of the French nobility, nobility and 584 of the Third Estate-commoners) elected to the Estates-General of 1789, which became the National Assembl ...
References
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Members of the National Constituent Assembly (France)
French people of German descent
1749 births
1824 deaths