Armand Joseph Bruat
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Armand Joseph Bruat (born May 26, 1796 in Colmar , † November 19, 1855 at sea) was a French admiral .
The admiral's father was Joseph Bruat from Grandvillars . He was temporarily in possession of the castle ruins Mörsberg and Florimont . Armand Joseph Bruat joined the French Navy in 1811 and served in Brazil and the West Indies in 1815 . From 1817 to 1820 he stayed with the French armed forces in the Levant and was then stationed first in Senegal and then in the Pacific until 1824 .
As a ship lieutenant , Bruat took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827 . In 1830 he was appointed commander of a brig , but was shipwrecked and taken prisoner in Algeria . After being replaced in 1831, he was appointed captain in 1831 and made governor of the Marquesas Islands in 1843 . During this time he was charge d'affaires of France at the Queen Aimata Pomaré IV. Of Tahiti and brought them with pressure and threats to the recognition of the French " protectorate ".
In 1849 Bruat became Governor General of the Antilles and in 1852 Vice Admiral . During the Crimean War in 1854 he was in command of the French fleet in the Black Sea . On his return to France, Armand Joseph Bruat died on November 19, 1855 at sea of cholera .
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi created a monument to Bruats for a fountain on Colmar's Field of Mars , which was inaugurated in 1864. The fountain, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1940, represented the four continents in allegories. After the Bruats statue was restored in 1958, it was placed on a new fountain designed by the sculptor Gérard Choain and the architect Porte.
literature
- Jean-Marie Schmitt: Bruat, Armand Joseph . In Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Faszikel 5, 1984, p. 374.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Stintzi: Blumenberg and Tattenried. In: Alemannisches Institut Freiburg / Breisgau (Ed.): Alemannisches Jahrbuch 1964/65. Konkordia, Bühl (Baden) 1966, p. 164 f. Preview in Google Book Search,
- ↑ The Bruat Fountain. (No longer available online.) Tourisme-colmar.com, archived from the original on August 27, 2016 ; accessed on August 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruat, Armand Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colmar |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1855 |
| Place of death | at sea |