puecklers

Updated: May 2, 2025

Both families were of immense antiquity, the Puecklers claiming to trace their descent from Ruediger von Bechlarn, who figures in the Nibelungenlied. Our hero was born at Muskau in October 1785, and spent, according to his own account, a wretched and neglected childhood.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century