Friedrich Albrecht von der Schulenburg

Schulenburg was born on 18 June 18 1772 in Dresden in the Electorate of Saxony. He was the son of Albrecht Ludwig von der Schulenburg (1741–1784), Privy Chamber and Mountain Councilor, and Auguste Friederike von Stammer (1751–1809). and was looked after by his mother and his guardian, Baron Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg (the father of the poet Novalis). After studying in Leipzig and Wittenberg, he devoted himself to diplomacy and politics. ==Career==

From 1794 to 1798, he was assigned as attaché to the embassies in Vienna, Regensburg and Rastatt. In 1799 he became Ambassador in Copenhagen, from 1801 to 1804 he held the same post in Saint Petersburg and from 1810 to 1830 at the court of Vienna. This sealed the division of Saxony and ceded the former Saxon Courlands to Prussia. Schulenburg's property, the Klosterrode estate (which his grandfather Adolf Friedrich had acquired in 1739), also came to Prussia. In 1819, he took part in the Carlsbad Conferences as his King's plenipotentiary. In the same year, he was entrusted with courting the hand of Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria for the then prince, later King Frederick Augustus II. In 1828 he was appointed Conference Minister and, in October 1830, after the small-state revolution in Saxony, he left the civil service, following his brother-in-law, Count Einsiedel, who had headed Saxony's foreign policy since May 1813 and on whose administration Schulenburg was said to have exerted considerable influence. After his retirement, lived mainly in Vienna, where he had considerable influence in the local salons. However, he spent his summers on his estate in Klosterrode, where he died of a heart attack in 1853. ==Personal life==

On 4 June 1822 he was married to Armgard von der Schulenburg (1799–1883), daughter of Philipp Ernst Alexander von der Schulenburg-Emden and Caroline von Alvensleben. There were no children of the marriage. Count von der Schulenburg-Klosterroda died on 12 September 1853 in Klosterrode, the last descendant of the family from the Klosterrode line, and was buried in the family crypt at St. Lamberti in Blankenheim. ==References==