Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell
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| Born | 29 October 1780 , Nassau-Usingen, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | 6 October 1834 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse-Homburg, German Confederation |
| Occupation | Political administrator Government president (Regierungspräsident) |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Weis (1785-1873) |
| Children | Karl von Ibell (1806-1847) Emma von Ibell / Koch (1807-1885) Dr. med Rudolf von Ibell (1814–1864) |
| Parent(s) | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Ibell (1744-1826) Christiane Dorothea Franziska Schmidt (1756-1823) |
Carl Friedrich Justus Emil von Ibell (29 October 1780 - 6 October 1834) was a senior government official (Amtmann) who famously survived an assassination attempt in 1819, and who ended up as president of the government in Hesse-Homburg which by this time was part of the German Confederation.
The Ibell family had originated in France, but they were Protestants, and so following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 they left their homeland to build a new life in Germany.
Carl Ibell was his parent's only recorded son, and their fourth recorded child, born in the substantial hunting lodge at (today part of Taunusstein) near Wiesbaden which was the family home. His father, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Ibell ("Der Amtmann Ibell") (1744-1826), had worked on behalf of the Prince since 1772 with administrative responsibilities for Wehen and seven surrounding villages. His mother was born Christiane Dorothea Franziska Schmidt (1756-1823), the only daughter of Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1719-1756) who had, as a young man, been employed as a tutor at court of Nassau-Usingen where his pupils had included Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau.
Ibell was a delicate child, and for much of the time during his first nine years he was ill, after which his health improved, much to his parents' relief. Initially educated by his parents, from 1790 he was taught by his great uncle (by marriage), the Protestant pastor Jakob Ludwig Schellenberg, in Bierstadt. Between 1793 and 1797 he attended the secondary school in nearby Idstein which his father had attended before him. Here he was able to live with a friend of his father's who was a physician. At school the boy excelled academically. After this he went away to university, studying Jurisprudence at Göttingen from 1798 till 1801, just as his faher had done a generation earlier. Two of his more memorable teachers at Göttingen were Johann Stephan Pütter (Law) and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Natural Sciences), both of whom were old enough to remember his father's time as a student, which led them to welcome the son with particular warmth, although Professor Lichtenberg died in 1799. In 1801 Carl Ibell received his practicing certificate. His university studies also took in natural sciences along with historical, archaeological, philosophical and language studies.
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