page_title: Johann Vesque von Püttlingen
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Vesque von Püttlingen / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pałac przebudowany w latach 1737-1743 za Jana Tarły wg projektu Franciszka Mayera oraz w latach 1766-1773 wg projektu Dominika Merliniego i Franciszka Ferdynanda Naxa (za projekty zapłacono Jakubowi Fontanie). W XIX wieku przebudowany.
context_page_description: Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, born J. Vesque de Puttelange, was an Austrian lawyer, diplomat, author, composer and singer. His full name and title in German was Johann Vesque, Freiherr von Püttlingen.
context_section_description: He was born in the Lubomirski Palace (pl:Pałac Lubomirskich) in Opole Lubelskie (at the time located in West Galicia, a province of the Holy Roman Empire in  eastern Poland, now in Lublin Voivodship).
  Background
  His father, Jean Vesque de Puttelange, born in Brussels, was a state official (civil servant) in Brussels, at the time in the Duchy of Brabant, a region of the Austrian Netherlands, themselves part of the Holy Roman Empire. Jean Vesque had to leave in a hurry after the French invasion of the Low Countries in 1793, but found himself banned (with the other Belgian officials of the late Brussels administration) from Vienna, where there were enough civil servants already; having rejected a French offer of citizenship of the new greater France - now including southern Belgium and Luxembourg - his estates were confiscated and he found himself stateless.
  After many years of wandering in Europe, often on foot, Jean Vesque obtained a position c1801 at the palace of Prince Alexander Lubomirsky in Opole Lubelskie, where he worked as librarian and tutor to his daughter Alexandra Francis Lubomirska, and where his son, also Johann Vesque (later von Püttlingen), was born in 1803. West Galicia had recently come under Habsburg control after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.
  The ban on Austro-Belgian officials settling in Vienna was lifted the following year, 1804, and the family moved to Vienna. The subsequent life of the infant Johann Vesque divides into two intertwining careers, that of a government official, and that of a composer.
caption: His birthplace, Lubomirski Palace in Opole Lubelskie, designed c.1770 by i.a. Domenico Merlini
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