SECKENDORF, an old and noble family of Franconia.—VEIT LUDWIG, 1626-92; b. near Erlangen;stndied at the gymnasia of Coburg in 1638, and at Gotha, under the pat ronage of Ernest, duke of Gotha. In 1643-46 lie studied in the university of Strasbourg, and traveled in the He rose through successive grades of office till he became privy-councilor and chancellor in 1664. In that Year he left the duke's service to enter that of Moritz, duke of Zeit, and was appointed to similar offices, resigning on the duke's death, and retiring to his country-house near Altenburg. In 1691 he entered the service of Frederick III., elector of Brandenburg, as privy-councilor at Berlin, and chancellor of the university of Halle. He published several works in Latin and German; also theological and historical works, discourses, and IlyMBS.—FRIEDRICH HEINRICH, 1673-1763; b. Konigsberg; grandson of Joachim Ludwig, entered the English and Dutch service in 1695, fought against the Turks in the war of the Spanish succession under prince Eugene; maj.gen. in the army of Augustus II. of Poland, and Saxony. He was
Polish ambassador to the Hague (1713), in the negotiations for the peace of Utrecht. He became count of the empire in 1719; gov. of Leipsic in 1721, ambassador to Berlin in 1726. He concluded the treaty of Wusterhausen. Ile incurred the displeasure of Fred erick the great by the means he used to consummate the royal marriage with the princess Elizabeth. He defeated the French at Klausen, 1735; was imprisoned three years in the castle of Gratz. He commanded the troops of the elector Charles Albert of Bavaria in 1744, and restored Munich to that prince, then Charles VII. of Getwiany. In 1745 he was imprisoned at Magdeburg by Frederick the great, and released after six months' confinement on paying 10,000 dialers.