Bartholomew von Striker
Bartholomäus Freiherr von Stürmer (born December 26, 1787 in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire , † July 8, 1863 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat and statesman .
Life
Bartholomäus was a son of the Austrian diplomat Ignaz Lorenz Freiherr von Stürmer . He was educated by the Jesuits and graduated from the Imperial and Royal Academy for Oriental Languages .
In the years 1812/13 he was a real legation secretary to Prince Schwarzenberg. He then took on various diplomatic missions and was Consul General in the United States from 1818 to 1820 . From 1834 to 1850 he worked as Internuntius in Constantinople; By this time he had made an excellent name for himself as a diplomatic mediator in missions throughout Europe and America and as a co-founder of Austrian steam shipping to the Orient .
On November 15, 1835, King Ludwig I of Bavaria awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .
Works
- The reports of the quay. Kings Commissar Bartholomäus Freiherr von Stürmer from St. Helena at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte's internment there 1816-1818 . Gerold, Vienna 1886. , digitized
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Striker, Bartholomäus Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, pp. 175–178 ( digitized version ).
- Hanns Schlitter: Striker, Bartholomäus Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 48 f.
- Gautier, Antoine: Un drogman à Sainte-Hélène, le baron Barthélémi de Stürmer (1787–1863) . Le Bulletin, Association des anciens élèves, Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales , October 2003, pp. 39-48.
- W. Godsey: Striker Bartholomäus Gf .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 445.
Individual evidence
- ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 3, Munich, February 22, 1836
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Striker, Bartholomäus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Striker, Bartholomäus Freiherr von; Striker, Bartholomäus Graf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian diplomat and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constantinople |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1863 |
| Place of death | Vienna |