Carl Borromäus von Miltitz
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Miltitz was born in Dresden on 9 November 1781.[1]
He held a literary circle at his ancestral castle Schloss Scharfenberg for about six years from 1811,[2] with several leading writers of the time, including Novalis, Christian Gottfried Körner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Johann August Apel and E. T. A. Hoffmann.[3] He was also a patron of artists, several of whom were commissioned to paint the castle, such as Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Thomas Fearnley, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Caspar David Friedrich.[4]
In 1823‚ he dined with American diplomat and writer Washington Irving in Dresden.[5]
Miltitz' brother Alexander was ambassador to Constantinople, and wrote a highly regarded book, The Manual of Consuls.[1]
