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Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Pollnitz was born at Issum, Germany on the 25th of February 1692. His father, Wilhelm Ludwig von Pollnitz was in the military service of the elector of Brandenburg, and much of his son's youth was passed at the electoral court in Berlin.
Pollnitz visited many of the European courts, and served as a soldier in Austria, Italy and Spain. Returning to Berlin in 1735 he obtained a position in the household of King Frederick William I and afterwards in that of Frederick the Great, with whom he appears to have been a great favourite.
Pollnitz's Memoires (Liege, 1734), which were translated into German (Frankfort, 1735), give interesting glimpses of his life and the people whom he met, but they are very untrustworthy.
He also wrote Nouveaux memoires (Amsterdam, 1737), Etat abrege de la cour de Saxe sous le regne d'Auguste III. (Frankfurt, 1734; Ger. trans. , Breslau, 1736) and Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des quatres derniers souverains de la maison de Branderibourg, published by F. L. Brunn (Berlin, 1791; Ger. trans. , Berlin, 1791).
His most popular works are La Saxe galante (Amsterdam, 1734, English translation 1929), an account of the private life of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland and Histoire secrete de la duchesse d'Hanovre, epouse de Georges I (London, 1732). There is an English translation of the Memoires (London, 1737-1738).
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He was a man of restless and adventurous disposition, unscrupulous even for the age in which he lived.
