Famous Birthday on 10th February and their famous work

Thomas Platter

Born: February 10, 1499, Grächen, Switzerland.

Thomas Platter the Elder was a Swiss humanist scholar and writer.

He grew up in poverty and, as a student, made a prolonged tour through Germany. After his return he first lived in Zürich, where he was an assistant to reformator Huldrych Zwingli. In 1531 he was an eye-witness of the Battle of Kappel, when Huldrych Zwingli was killed.

In 1544 he was encouraged to become the principal of the Gymnasium at the Münsterplatz in Basel. He demanded quite a high remuneration for it, which was approved, but under the condition he wouldn’t disclose it to the public.

His autobiography mostly deals with his youth and the history of how he became a well-known humanist scholar. It was read by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is one of the finest examples of the German autobiography of this time.

Died: January 26, 1582, Basel, Switzerland.

Albrecht Giese

Born: 10 February 1524, Danzig, Kingdom of Poland.

He was a member of the Hanseatic League, and part of an important merchant family who had offices in London and Danzig.

Albrecht studied at the Universities of Greifswald, Wittenberg and Heidelberg. As was the custom of the time for Hanseatic merchants, he toured Europe for several years to learn different languages after his formal studies, as was necessary for a long-distance trader. In 1564, on his return to Danzig, he married Elisabeth Langenbeck, whose uncle, Johann Ferber, had been the Mayor of Danzig.

Giese ultimately became Mayor of Danzig. In 1579, Giese was named royal burgrave of Danzig by the Polish king, a position that entailed the supervision of the judiciary system of the city.

Albrect and Elisabeth Giese had at least seven children. Two of his sons enjoyed prominent careers. One of his older sons, Tiedemann Giese, became the Bishop of Chełm (Culm) and later, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland), while one of the younger sons, Georg Giese became a merchant and who is noted for having his portrait painted by Hans Holbein the younger.

Died: 1 August 1580, Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Christine of France

Born: February 10, 1606, Paris, France.

Christine of France was the sister of Louis XIII and Duchess of Savoy by marriage. Upon the death of her husband Victor Amadeus I in 1637, she acted as regent of Savoy between 1637 and 1648.

She did as much as she could to ensure that her court rivalled in splendour that of her sister Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England. In spite of this, the two sisters maintained an avid correspondence throughout their life which showed their close relationship. She was a confidant to the exiled Queen Henrietta, who often wrote to her about her experiences during the English Civil War and her son’s restoration.

Victor Amadeus became Duke after the death of his father on 26 July 1630. When Christine’s husband died in 1637, she was created regent in the name of her son Francis Hyacinth. At the death of Francis Hyacinth in 1638, her second son Charles Emmanuel II succeeded and Christine retained the regency.

She lived an uninhibited private life and had relationships with the French Ambassador, Marini, her brother-in-law, Maurice, and Count Filippo d’Aglié, a handsome learned and courageous man who remained faithful to her all her life.

She encouraged her son Charles Emmanuel to marry her niece Françoise Madeleine d’Orléans, the youngest surviving daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, her youngest brother. They married 3 Apr 1663.

Died: December 27, 1663, Turin, Italy.

John Suckling

Born: February 10, 1609, Whitton, United Kingdom.

Sir John Suckling was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem “Ballade upon a Wedding”.

Suckling’s poetic talent was one of many accomplishments, but commended him especially to Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria. He says of himself (“A Sessions of the Poets”) that he “prized black eyes or a lucky hit at bowls above all the trophies of wit.” Aubrey says he invented the game of cribbage and relates that his sisters came weeping to a bowling green at Piccadilly to dissuade him from play, lest he lose their portions.

Suckling was so passionately fond of cards that he frequently spent a whole morning in bed with a pack, studying the subtleties of his favorite games. He was not only the most skillful card-player, but also the best bowler in England.

In 1634, scandal was caused in his circle by a beating he received at the hands of Sir John Digby, a rival suitor for the daughter of Sir John Willoughby. It has been suggested that the incident, narrated at length in a letter of 10 November 1634 from George Garrard to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, had something to do with his beginning to seek more serious society.

As a dramatist Suckling is noteworthy for applying to regular drama the accessories being used in the production of masques. His Aglaura (printed 1638) was produced at his own expense with elaborate scenery. Even the lace on the actors’ coats was of real gold and silver. The play, despite its felicity of diction, lacks dramatic interest.

A collection of Suckling’s poems first appeared in 1646 as Fragmenta Aurea. The Selections (1836) published by Alfred Inigo Suckling is in fact a complete edition, of which WC Hazlitt’s edition (1874; revised 1892) is little more than a reprint with some additions. The Poems and Songs of Sir John Suckling, edited by John Gray and decorated with woodcut border and initials by Charles Ricketts, was artistically printed at the Ballantyne Press in 1896. In 1910 Suckling’s works in prose and verse were edited by A. Hamilton Thompson.

Died: June 1, 1642, Paris, France.

Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau

Born: February 10, 1637, The Hague, Netherlands.

Henriette Catherine of Nassau was princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau by marriage to John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and regent of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1698 during the minority of her son Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.

Henriette and John George were a great influence over the German court at agriculture, construction of ports, levees, architecture and painting. In 1660, John George gave his wife the town of Nischwitz where she built houses and a cemetery, made glass and brought it to fruition.

Died: November 3, 1708, Oranienbaum, Oranienbaum-Wörlitz, Germany.

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