Blankenburger
Item
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Country
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DE
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Name of institution (English)
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Herzog August Library
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Language of name of institution
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deu
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Contact information: postal address
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Lessingplatz 1, D-38304 Wolfenbüttel
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Contact information: phone number
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0049 053318080
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Contact information: email
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ed.bah@tfnuksua
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Reference number
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Blank.
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Blankenburger
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Title (official language of the state)
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Blankenburger
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Language of title
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deu
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Creator / accumulator
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Ludwig Rudolf
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Date note
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9th century/18th century
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Language(s)
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deu
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dut
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fra
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lat
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Extent
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346 manuscripts
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Blankenburger collection comprises 308 manuscripts, covering a broad range of subjects. It includes, for instance, history and family books, as well as French and Oriental manuscripts. The collection includes a handwritten letter from Cornelius Ullefeld, a Swedish intellectual, to Baruch de Castro (1597-1684), a Portuguese Jewish physician living in Hamburg (HAB MS. 17 Blankenburg, fol. 384). See a transcription of this letter in Brown and Bertolín Cebrián (2000).
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Archival history
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This collection is composed of manuscripts from the library of Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671-1735), assembled at his castle in Blankenburg/Harz and transferred to the ducal archive in Wolfenbüttel (now Herzog August Bibliothek) in 1752/1753.
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(source: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Manuscript database))
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Ludwig Rudolf (1671-1735) was the youngest son of Duke Anton Ulrich (1633–1714). He received the county of Blankenburg in 1690. The county rose to a principality in 1707 and Ludwig Rudolf ruled it independently from 1714 onwards. In 1731, after the death of his childless brother, August Wilhelm, Ludwig Rudolf took over the government of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, reuniting it with Wolfenbüttel after a short separation.
Ludwig Rudolf and his wife Christine Luise (1671-1747) pursued an exceptionally intensive cultural policy. The couple was prominent in setting up extensive libraries and promoting theatres and operas, thus establishing Blankenburg as a cultural hub, which on occasion noticeably competed with the ducal court in Wolfenbüttel.
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Sources:
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Die Welfen website
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Early modern ego-documents in Herzog August Bibliothek II. Digital edition of the diaries of Duke Ludwig Rudolf and Duchess Christine Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel project
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System of arrangement
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The items are organised under the general rules of library management.
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2022
