Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

sufficient wealth, so that in the year 1311 they divided into 9 branches, which bore the enemy on their shields, and all led their new family names back to the Holm. The first of the branch to which our departed belonged was named Otto Heinrich von Hund und Alten Grottkau. He possessed his estates in Silesia, and subsequently they also purchased estates in Lusatia. However, since it is not my intention to speak of magnitude in ourselves, but rather that active deeds are the surest proofs of true goodness and merit, I would have a vast field before me here, to show you, Most Reverend Brothers, the ancestors of our departed Lord Brother Master original: B. M. (Bruder Meister) as victors in the campaigns of ancient times, and to entertain you with their deeds. I will remain nearby.
His father was Joachim Hildebrand von Hund und Alten Grottkau, a Royal Prussian and Electoral Saxon Chamberlain; his mother was Sophia Elisabeth, née von Wahlen. From this marriage, there remained the only fruit of their love, our now-departed Lord Brother Master, whose memory I shall bless eternally. Whereas the Most Gracious and Noble Lord Carl Gotthelf von Hund und Alten Grottkau, of Manina, Ranatou, Ließke, Moosdorf, Brenwalde, and Lipke, Privy Councilor to their respective Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesties of Hungary and Bohemia, likewise Privy Councilor and Chamberlain to his late Royal Majesty of Poland and the now-reigning Electoral Serene Highness of Saxony, Landeshauptmann of the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia, Knight of the high noble, re-figured Order of St. Pforta and the Imperial Apostolic Order of St. Anne, called in the Order:

Too brave
† Baron of the Holy Roman Empire

Carl of the Three, Knight of the Grand Cross, Brother Master, Governor of the V and VII Provinces, and Administrator of the VIII, Grand Treasurer and General Visitor; the sign of the Lion, Lord of the F. G. at F.
The day of his birth was 11 September 1722.
He lost his dear father through death in 1731.
His mother and his dear guardian, a Herr von Rodewitz on Leuthen, took great care of his education and provided him with the best instructors, among whom the recently deceased Dr. Barth of Leipzig was the one who gave him instruction for the longest time, and in the year 1738 also went with him to the high school in Leipzig.
The death of his mother, who did not wish to have him depart from her side, delayed the enjoyment of his thirst for knowledge and the opportunity to become acquainted with other nations.
His mentor, who guided the more fleeting paths of the youth into steady tracks, was an Lieutenant Colonel von Schönberg, serving in the Electoral service. With him, he went to Strasbourg, where he devoted himself especially to the mathematical sciences, and then to Paris, until the news of the death of Carl VII called him back to Germany. On his journey through Cologne, he entered local ecclesiastical services and accompanied the Elector as Chamberlain to Frankfurt for the election and coronation.
I have hurried to this point because his days flowed by like the days of instructive youths, in order to prepare to carry the greater path of their lives.
I now begin the part of his life that makes him truly and so worthily distinguished. Frankfurt was the place where, in the year 1742, he entered into the true