Wolfgang Heribert Kämmerer von Worms Freiherr von Dalberg (born 18 November 1750 in Worms-Herrnsheim, died 27 September 1806 in Mannheim) was a courtier and statesman of Baden, who served as Minister of State and Grand Master of the Household.[1][2] He was also the first general administrator of the Mannheim National Theatre.
Early life and nacestry[edit]
He was a member of the prominent House of Dalberg and brother of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and Marianne von der Leyen, regent of the County of Hohengeroldseck.
Personal life[edit]
He was married to Baroness Elisabeth Augusta Ulner von Dieburg (1751-1816), daughter of Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr Ulner von Dieburg (1715-1771) and his second wife, Baroness Marie Louise Antoinette von Loë (1730-1756). They had one surviving son:
- Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, who became a French diplomat and was granted the French title of Duke of Dalberg in 1810. He was married to Marquise Marie Pellegrine Thérèse de Brignole-Sale (d. 1860); had issue
References[edit]
- ^ Hans Knudsen (1957), "Dalberg, Wolfgang Heribert Tobias Otto Maria Johann Nepomuk von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 490–491; (full text online)
- ^ Jacob Achilles Mähly (1876), "Dalberg, Wolfgang Heribert von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 708–709