Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg
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Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg is a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a music and art historian.
Biography
He was born in RemplinRemplin
Remplin is a village and a former municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 7 June 2009, it is part of the municipality Malchin....
, Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...
at the grand ducal families estate the youngest child of Duke Georg of Mecklenburg and his first wife Irina Raievskya. Of his names, Gregor was given as honoring his maternal ancestral uncle, Grigori Potemkin, Prince of Tauride - in Russian context, the boy would be 'Grigori Yurievich'. He spent the first years of his life at Schloss Remplin until the main part of the palace was destroyed in a fire in 1940. His family then moved to Grunewald
Grunewald
Grunewald is a locality within the Berliner borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Famous for the homonymous forest, until 2001 administrative reform it was part of the former district of Wilmersdorf.-Geography:The locality is situated in the western side of the city and is separated from...
where they lived until their home was completely destroyed in February 1944 during a bombing raid. His father was held prisoner by the Nazi government from 1944 until he was released in February 1945 when he took his family to live in Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen district....
at the invitation of Princess Margarethe of Hohenzollern.
Carl Gregor studied music and art history at the University of Tübingen and in 1968 gained a Doctorate in Art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
. He has worked as an assistant professor in the department of art history at the Technische Hochschule
Technische Hochschule
Technische Hochschule is what an Institute of Technology used to be called in German-speaking countries, as well as in the Netherlands, before most of them changed their name to Technische Universität or Technische Universiteit in the 1970s and in the...
in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. In 1974 he was appointed the director of the Museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and held the position until his retirement in 1992. Carl Gregor is the author of a number of books.
Duke Carl Gregor married Princess Maria Margarethe of Hohenzollern, the daughter of Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden
Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden
Franz Joseph Prinz von Hohenzollern-Emden was a member of the Roman Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern...
, in a civil ceremony on 18 February 1965 in Hechingen
Hechingen
Hechingen is a town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated about south of the state capital of Stuttgart and north of Lake Constance and the Swiss border.- City districts :...
. They were married religiously on 23 April 1966 in the Chapel at Burg Hohenzollern
Burg Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern Castle is a castle about south of Stuttgart, Germany. It is considered the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern family, which emerged in the Middle Ages and eventually became German Emperors....
.