Alexander Peter von Kielchen

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Alexander Peter von Kielchen (historically often the other way around Peter Alexander (von) Kielchen; Alexander P. Kielchen or just Peter Kielchen in Russian Александр Петрович Кильхен Alexander Petrowitsch Kielchen ; * 1797 in Finland ; † April 1851 in Corfu ) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

Origin and family

Alexander was a member of the von Kielchen noble family . He married Eugenie Coralie Lecesne on May 25, 1818 in Rio de Janeiro . She was the daughter of a coffee plantation owner in Brazil, Louis François LeCesne, who was born in Caen , Normandy in 1759 and died in 1823. In 1794 he had married his first wife Eugenie de la Piroeniere (Peronnière) in New York , who came from an old noble family of Brittany and died giving birth to their first child, Eugenie Coralie.

At the end of 1822, the Kielchen couple already had their two children, Eugenie and Sammy. In 1825 a son Peter was born. The family currently lived in a property in Botafogo near Rio de Janeiro.

Career

In 1818, barely 22 years old, Kielchen was already accredited as Russian Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro. At the beginning of this year he and his boss, the Russian Consul General of Brazil, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff , visited the plantation owner Louis François LeCesne, who only a short time later became his father-in-law. From 1824 to 1828 Langsdorff undertook a long expedition to Brazil, in which several zoologists and botanists took part. At times the painters Johann Moritz Rugendas and Hercule Florence also took part in this expedition. After many difficulties and adventures, he was critically ill and mentally confused and had to break off the expedition. He suffered from cerebral typhus and malaria. Langsdorff had arrived in Rio in a state of utter irrationality. Vice Consul Peter Kielchen and Ludwig Riedel took over the lead of the expedition and began to fulfill the existing agreements while they waited for orders from the Russian government. In 1830 Langsdorff left Rio de Janeiro and went to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he spent the rest of his life. Kielchen's tenure as consul in Brazil lasted at least until 1832.

Since the summer of 1833, Kielchen was consul in Boston as titular councilor ( 9th class ). In 1840 he was named as Consul General there. His accreditation in the United States ended in 1842. There he was considered a “good Catholic” and a good chess player: In July 1842, Peter Alexander Kielchen defeated Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1788–1842) in Boston (+3 = 0 −0). Oliver was considered Boston's best and one of the five best chess players in the United States, according to the assessment of the chess grandmaster William Schlumberger (1800-1838), who also played against Oliver.

Kielchen was 1846 Kollegienrat (6th grade class) in Rome at the Pontifical State accredited. Finally he concluded his tour as Consul General in Ancona . Kielchen was polyglot , he spoke seven languages.

literature

  • Boston Pilot (1838–1857) , Volume 14, Number 27, July 4, 1851 (obituary; digitized from Boston College Library)
  • Georges Aubin, Jonathan Lemire: Ludger Duvernay, Lettres d'exil 1837–1842 , p. 52, FN 77

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armorial général de Bretagne , 1844, p. 245 (Ponceau (du) -de la Pironnière).
  2. ↑ Life data of Louis François LeCesne
  3. ↑ Frances Marie Hobkirk, b. Lecesne: The Selby, Lecesne and Hobkirk story , 1881 (manuscript).
  4. ↑ Frances Marie Hobkirk, b. Lecesne: The Selby, Lecesne and Hobkirk story , 1881 (manuscript). See also Otto von Kotzebue : A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26 , London 1830, p. 33.
  5. ^ Orchids in the era of Grigory von Langsdorff: two golden decades in the history of the botanical exploration of Brazil (1813-1830)
  6. ^ Yegor Antonovich Engelhardt: Russian Miscelles for a precise knowledge of Russia and its inhabitants , Volume 4, St. Petersburg 1832, p. 62 . The London Gazette , p. 898.
  7. ↑ Imperial Academy of Sciences (ed.): State Handbook of Russia or directory of the imperial Russian state authorities and the most excellent officials employed. St. Petersburg 1835, p. 98.
  8. ↑ Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique , Gotha 1840, p. (3).
  9. ^ Bill Wall: 19th Century Chess , p. 70 .
  10. ^ Chess in early America: William (Wilhelm) Schlumberger
  11. ↑ Chess in early America: Benjamin Lynde Oliver
  12. ↑ Genealogical-historical-statistical almanac: on the year 1846 , Weimar 1846, p. 158.
  13. ↑ Reminiscences of John Francis Hobkirk, a nephew of the wife of Kielchens (son of her half-sister).
personal data
SURNAME Kielchen, Alexander Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кильхен, Александр Петрович (Russian); Kielchen, Alexander Petrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Finland
DATE OF DEATH April 1851
Place of death Corfu