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Jean Jacques Joseph de Klinglin
An eighteenth-century Alsatian nobleman and military officer, he also appears in the world of revolutionary-era print through his connection to the Journal de la société de 1789. His life links old-regime privilege, military service, and the political debates that shaped France at the end of the century.
1 Audiobook
Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº IV
by marquis de Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, Jean Jacques Joseph de Klinglin, Pierre Samuel du Pont
About the author
Born in Strasbourg in 1733, Jean Jacques Joseph de Klinglin, baron de Hattstatt, came from a prominent Alsatian family. Historical records describe him as a French general who later served Austria, and note that he died at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria in 1818.
Library and catalog records also connect him to the Journal de la société de 1789, a publication associated with the early years of the French Revolution. That makes him an intriguing figure: not only a nobleman and soldier, but also someone whose name is preserved in the printed political culture of his time.
Some details of his literary role are not fully clear from the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him as a historical figure whose surviving record spans both military service and revolutionary-era publishing.