Anton Sebastian von Struve

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Anton Sebastian von Struve (born April 2, 1729 in Kiel , † April 7, 1802 in Greiz ) was a diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire .

Life

The Struve family came from the Magdeburg area . Anton Sebastian was the son of the Holstein Justice Council and Professor of Law at the University of Kiel Friedrich Gottlieb Struve (* 1676; † 1752). His mother Johanna Dorothea Struve († June 19, 1742) was born Werner. His grandfather was Georg Adam Struve .

Anton Sebastian received private lessons, but also took part in public lessons. After studying at the University of Kiel for a year and a half , he left his hometown around Michaelis in 1745, to which he was never to return to enroll at the University of Jena . During the following two years of law studies he heard lectures from the Lutheran pastor Joachim Georg Darjes (1714–1791), who was also a lawyer, philosopher, economist and enlightener, as well as from the lawyer and historian Christian Gottlieb Buder (1693–1763) the legal scholars Johann August von Hellfeld (1717–1782) and Johann Gottfried Schaumburg (1703–1746). He successfully completed his studies at the age of 19.

In 1747 he stayed in Regensburg , where he found a friendly welcome in the house of a relative, the Hofkammerrat Schwers. Before he turned to his new sphere of activity in Regensburg, he spent a year in Erlangen and Bamberg for information purposes . In 1749 he was back in Regensburg.

There he initially worked as the preceptor of the youngest son of the Count of Schönburg. The count was royal. Elector Saxon real secret council and conference minister as well as envoy to the Reichstag. In the same year Struve accompanied his pupil to Erlangen. From 1750 to 1752 both were in Dresden and Leipzig . Then Anton Sebastian Struve became the private secretary of the Count, who had meanwhile established himself in Dresden.

In 1755 Struve entered the service of Duke Peter of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and later in that of the Russian Empire . The Duke's mother, who died early, was a daughter of the Russian Tsar Peter I. After Duke Karl Peter Ulrich was appointed heir to the throne in 1742 by his childless aunt Elisabeth, Empress of Russia (1741–1762), he converted to the Orthodox faith and received the Name Peter Fjodorowitsch, became Grand Duke and followed his aunt in 1762 after her death as Tsar Peter III. on the throne. As Grand Duke Peter, who also ruled the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorf , he appointed Anton Struve as legation secretary at the Reichstag in Regensburg. On September 19, 1755 Struve traveled from Dresden to Regensburg.

There he met Dorothea Reimers (1735–1795), the daughter of his predecessor and Herzogl. Holstein Legation Secretary. The marriage took place on May 11, 1756. Twelve children were born to the couple, six boys and six girls.

In October 1762 Anton Sebastian Struve got a job as Russ in addition to his previous post. Kaiserl. Legation Secretary . On 1 December 1767, he became the major princely Schleswig-Holstein Legationsrat appointed and on May 31, 1776 Russ. Kaiserl. Legation Council. When Holstein was exchanged for Oldenburg and the county of Delmenhorst ( Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo , 1773), Struve entered the imperial Russian service. He became the Russ. Kaiserl. Envoy Freiherrn von der Asseburg , whom he largely represented, as he mostly stayed on his estates in Halberstadt . In the 1780s, Struve was promoted to the chancellery . At this time, the Russian Tsarina (and at the same time Duchess of Holstein-Gottorf) Catherine II awarded him the newly established Order of St. Vladimir 4th class, with which the hereditary title of nobility was associated. Sophia von Anhalt-Zerbst had the Russian Tsar Peter III in 1745 . married and dethroned him in 1762.

On May 21, 1795, Struve's wife Dorothea died. In the summer of 1796 Napoleonic troops ( First Coalition War 1792/97) stood at the gates of Regensburg. Like most members of the Perpetual Reichstag, von Struve also left the city and embarked with his family on the Danube to Krems . He found a new place to stay in nearby Stein , now part of Krems.

At the Moscow coronation celebrations in 1797, the new Tsar Paul I appointed him resident at the Reichstag in Regensburg, a post that was vacant after the death of Freiherr von der Asseburg . In 1799 Anton Sebastian von Struve became a real Russ. Kaiserl. State Council raised and retired at the same time .

As a result of the renewed relocation of the theater of war ( Second Coalition War 1798 / 99-1801 / 02) in 1800 to the borders of Bavaria , von Struve moved with his sons Gustav and Johann Georg and the wife of the former to Greiz in Vogtland . His youngest daughter Philippine had been married there to the Reussian President and Chancellor von Grün for a year and a half . In the same year von Struve became seriously ill. When a severe fire broke out in Greiz on April 6, 1802 , most of the city was destroyed. Struve's residence also fell victim to the flames. Together with his daughter, he fled the city and found refuge on the neighboring Schönfeld estate owned by Mr. von Kommerstädt, who came from Voigtland nobility, and his family. Anton Sebastian von Struve died on April 7, 1802 a few hours after his arrival at Gut Schönfeld. He was buried on April 10th in the nearby Reinsdorf churchyard .

Marriage and offspring

He married Sophie Dorothea Reimers (* 1735, † 1795) in 1756 and had twelve children with her, four of whom were girls and one boy who died in childhood and young adulthood:

  • Catherina Elisabetha (* 1759; † 1838); married to Christoph von Selpert, councilor of several imperial cities and comitial representative .
  • Johann Christoph Gustav (* 1763; † 1828); Diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire; Councilor at the Russ. Kaiserl. Legation in Munich ; married to Friderika Sybilla, daughter of the ducal Württemberg church council director von Hochstetter. Children: Elise, Sebastian Amand, Sophia Elisabetha, Karl Anton, Georg Heinrich, Katinka, Amand Gustav, Johann Ludwig Karl Heinrich, Sophia Mariana.
  • Johann Georg (* 1766; † 1831); Councilor of the Russ. Kaiserl. Legation in Regensburg; married to Mariana, daughter of the Hochfürstl. Brandenburg-Anspach-Bayreuthisch and Hohenlohische Kommissionsrat Schmidlin.
  • Johann Christian (* 1768; † 1812); Collegiate assessor at the Collegio of foreign affairs in Saint Petersburg .
  • August Wilhelm (* 1770; † 1838); College assessor at the Post Office in Saint Petersburg.
  • Heinrich Christian Gottfried (* 1772; † 1851); Diplomat and mineralogist ; College assessor at the Russ. Kaiserl. Legation in Stuttgart ; married to Elisabetha Wilhelmina Zidonia Countess zu Friedenburg. Son Anton Gustav.
  • Albrecht (* 1774; † 1794)
  • Philippine Rosina Elisabetha (* 1775; † 1819); married to Franz von Grün, Princely Reuss- Plauischer President and Chancellor. Children: Heinrich, Charlotte.

literature

  • Main features from the life of our unforgettable father of the Weyland Russian-Imperial real Councilor, resident and Knight of the Volodimir Order, Mr. Anton Sebastian von Struve. Munich 1802 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Gustav v. Struve . In: BF Voigt, Nischwitz (editor): New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Ilmenau 1830, sixth year 1828, first part, pp. 372–378
  • Ms. Cast: South German noble hero . Second Section, First Volume, Stuttgart 1845, pp. 324-325

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Ms. Cast: South German noble hero . Second Section, First Volume, Stuttgart 1845, pp. 324-325
  2. ↑ Main features from the life of our unforgettable father of the Weyland Russian-Imperial real councilor, resident and Knight of the Volodimir Order, Mr. Anton Sebastian von Struve. Munich 1802, 23 pages. P. 4 ( digitized version ); Retrieved October 19, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p main features from the life of our unforgettable father of the weyland Russian-Imperial real councilor, resident and Volodimir-order knight Mr. Anton Sebastian von Struve. Munich 1802, 23 pages. P. 4–20 ( digitized version ), accessed on October 19, 2017
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Main features from the life of our unforgettable father of the Weyland Russian-Imperial real councilor, resident and Knight of the Volodimir Order, Mr. Anton Sebastian von Struve. Munich 1802, 23 pages. Pp. 22–23 ( digitized version ), accessed on October 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Anton Sebastian from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1802
Place of death Greiz