August Franz Globensky

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August-Franz Globensky, by Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy, ca.1812/1815

August Franz Globensky, born August Franciszek Głąbiński , also Glaubenskindt, Globenski, Glanbenkind (born January 1, 1754 near Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia ; † April 19, 1830 in Saint-Eustache near Montreal , Canada ) was a Polish doctor and one of the founders of the Polish community in Canada.

Born to Joseph Glaubenskindt, a royal notary originally from Poland, and Marie Richter, a German, the name Glaubenskindt appears on both his birth certificate and his military register. Since Glaubenskindt is not a common surname in Germany, it seems obvious that he received this surname from a poetic Germanization of the name Głowiński, a common Polish surname. After immigrating to Canada, he only used the name Globensky.

military service

He served as a field clerk in the American War of Independence in a regiment of the Landgrave of Hesse-Hanau , a company under the leadership of Major Hermann Albrecht von Franken in the corps of Friedrich Adolf Riedesel , which the British had recruited against the American colonists with continental soldiers.

His regiment landed in Quebec on July 1, 1776. On October 7, 1777, Riedesel's regiment was defeated and surrendered in the Battle of Bemis Heights , in which Tadeusz Kościuszko was on the side of the victors. Globensky decided to stay with Anglo-Saxon loyalists in the former British colony of Quebec.

Living in Canada

Marie-Françoise Globensky

He settled in Verchères , now a suburb of Montreal , in Québec and was one of the first Polish settlers in Canada. He married Françoise Brousseau and the marriage had sixteen children. The church asked him to submit a Catholic baptism certificate. He therefore wrote to his father. A certificate of baptism was issued, signed by the sixth Prince Lobkowicz , Ferdinand Philip. Between 1791 and 1830 he ran a pharmacy that is considered to be the first Polish store in Canada.

His son, Lieutenant Colonel Maximilien Globensky, fought in the War of 1812 and his grandson, Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky, was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for Deux-Montagnes in 1875 . One of the descendants is the pianist Anna-Marie Globenski (1929–2008).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turek, Wiktor (1960). The Polish Past in Canada. Toronto: Polish Alliance Press.
  2. ↑ Anna-Marie Globenski ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .

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personal data
SURNAME Globensky, August Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Głąbiński, August Franciszek (maiden name); Glaubenskindt, August Franz; Globenski, August Franz; Glanbenkind, August Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish military doctor in Canada
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH near Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1830
Place of death Saint-Eustache (Quebec) , Canada