Carl Johann von Numers
Carl Johann von Numers (born March 20, 1757 at Magnushof near Riga ; † October 22, 1822 in Idwen , Livonia , today Idus in Latvia ) was a German-Baltic soldier in the Imperial Russian service and Land Marshal of Livonia.
Life
Numers came from a family originally from Lübeck who had been ennobled in Sweden in 1653, living in the city of Narva in the person of the local mayor Lorentz Numers . His father was Major General Gustav von Numers (1715–1780), who was in Russian service at the time , and his mother was a née von Budberg . Numers studied from 1773 at the University of Göttingen and belonged there to the Courland Landsmannschaft since September 1775 and the influential student order "ZN" . He completed his studies in 1776 at the University of Strasbourg . In 1776 he struck a military career in Russian service with the Land Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg . He took his leave as lieutenant colonel in 1795 or 1797. In 1780, the Idwen estate, which the family had received from Empress Catherine II of Russia as a gift in 1762 , had already passed to him. After a time as senior director of the Livonian noble goods credit society 1803-1805 and a subsequent stay abroad, he took on the self-management of Idwen in 1806. From 1806–1809 he was Land Marshal of Livonia, 1809–1822 District Administrator and 1811–1812 also Vicar Land Marshal.
Carl Johann von Numers was married to Louise Christina von Patkul since 1784 .
literature
- Otto Deneke : Old Göttingen Landsmannschaften, Göttingen 1937
- Götz von Selle : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1734-1837 . Hildesheim, Leipzig 1937
- Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN Order , in: Once and Now . 1974 yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, pp. 30–54
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Carl Johann von Numers. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Matriculation in Göttingen on August 15, 1773
- ↑ Hans Johannes Feldmann , Heinz von zur Mühlen : Baltic historical local dictionary: Latvia (South Livland and Courland) , 1990, p. 226 (digitized version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Numers, Carl Johann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nummers, Carl Johann von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lieutenant colonel, district administrator and land marshal of Livonia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magnushof near Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1822 |
| Place of death | Idwen , Livonia |