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Cuno Burchard von Pless

Biography


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Sometime aide-de-camp to Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick.

Also known as

  • Baron de Pless

Life with James Boswell

Boswell met him in Brunswick on August 8, 1764, and described him as "a brave, worthy, amiable young man". They spent some time together on the next day, talking about religion and melancholy (depression) in the palace gardens.

On October 15, 1764, Boswell sent him a letter from Rippach in Saxony, asking him to send him a range of mint silver coins from Brunswick, as “[i]n all the countries where I travel, I wish to make a ollection of the silver coins struck in the year that I was there”.

Mentioned in

Cuno Burchard von Pless is mentioned in:

  • Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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