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.
Siegmund Carl von Thüngen - Court Marshal of Saxe-Gotha
Siegmund Carl von Thüngen
Born Aug 30, 1730 in ZeitlofsDied Feb 19, 1800 in Wetzlar
Alias:
Johann Siegmund Karl von Thüngen
Freiherr von Thüngen
Biography:
A student of four years in Göttingen, he became a chamberlain in the service of Würzburg. In the 1760s he was a Court Marshal in Saxe-Gotha before in 1767 being called to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, in Vienna. In 1772 he became president of the Imperical Chamber Court in Wetzlar.1
Life with Boswell:
Boswell met Thüngen, the Court Marshal at the court of Saxe-Gotha, in Gotha on October 17, 1764. Boswell found him "a sensible polite man".
Note 1: Mader, Eric-Oliver. (2005) Die Letzen "Priester der Gerechtigkeit". p. 68
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