Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

Adam Ludwig Graf Lewenhaupt (born April 15, 1659 in a camp near Copenhagen , †  February 12, 1719 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Swedish general .

After completing university training in Sweden and Germany, Lewenhaupt first joined the Bavarian military service . Here he fought against the Turks in Hungary from 1685 to 1686 . Then he went with Swedish auxiliary troops as a colonel to Holland , where he fought against the French from 1691 to 1697.

In 1697 Lewenhaupt returned to Sweden , where King Karl XII. at the beginning of the Northern War made chief of a newly recruited regiment . He fought successfully against the Russians , triumphing in Saladen ( Saločiai ) in 1703, in 1704 in Jakobstadt , in 1705 in the Battle of Masonry and then rose to become general of the infantry . In 1708 he suffered a defeat in the Battle of Lesnaya on the Dnepr by Peter the Great when he was given to King Charles XII. wanted to supply an auxiliary corps. He managed to get through to the king and unite the troops, but after the battle of Poltava in 1709 and the final persecution by the Russians at Perevolochna, he had to accept a surrender that brought almost the rest of the Swedish army into Russian captivity.

In 1690 he married Brita Dorotea Lewenhaupt (1663-1730), a daughter of Field Marshal Carl Mauritz Lewenhaupt (1620-1666).

Although he remained a prisoner in Russia, he was appointed Imperial Councilor by Ulrika Eleonore when she ascended the throne . Lewenhaupt died in Moscow on February 12, 1719, without having seen his fatherland again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, Volume 2. Leipzig 1911, p. 52. Article on zeno.org
  2. ↑ See the entry of Adam Löwenhaupt's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ A b Angus Konstam: Poltava 1709: Russia comes of age , p. 14 excerpts from Google Books, Praeger Publishers Inc 2005, ISBN 978-0275989019
  4. ^ Dietrich Geyer: Turning point - It began in Poltava. In: Die Zeit No. 23 May 28, 2009, accessed on February 13, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Article Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D069100~2a%3D~2b%3DAdam%20Ludwig%20Lewenhaupt
personal data
SURNAME Lewenhaupt, Adam Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewenhaupt, Adam Ludwig Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish general
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1719
Place of death Moscow , Russia