Carl von Waeber

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Carl von Waebers tomb in the Radebeul-West cemetery

Carl Friedrich Theodor von Waeber (born June 5, jul. / 17th June  1841 greg. In Liepaja dt (Libau). Courland Governorate , Russian Empire , now in Latvia , † 8. January 1910 in Niederlößnitz today Radebeul ; and Carl v. Waeber , Carl Ivanovich (from) Waeber , Karl Ivanovich Weber ; russian Карл Фридрих Теодор (Карл Иванович) фон Вебер ; Hangeul : 위패, Hanja :韋貝, Revised Romanized : Wipae, McCune-Reischauer : Wip'ae) was a Imperial Russian envoy to Korea and friend of King Gojong there .

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Waeber was the son of the Hamburg-born teacher Johann Heinrich Waeber. 1860–62 he studied oriental languages ​​in St. Petersburg. From 1865 to 1871 he was the Russian embassy attaché in Beijing, then for the next two years Secretary of the Consulate General in Jeddo (Tokyo) and Vice Consul in Jokohama. On April 18, 1872, he married Jenny Alide Maack in St. Petersburg.

From 1873 to 1875 he was first deputy consul general in Jeddo and from 1875 Russian consul; In 1876 he also occupied the posts of Danish and German consuls in Tiensin.

From 1884 Waeber was on an extraordinary mission in Korea during the negotiation of the Russian friendship treaty, and then from 1885 to 1898 as the chargé d'affaires there. In 1888 he was promoted to the True Council of State. He hosted the Emperor of Korea in the Russian embassy while he was fleeing. In 1898 his efforts were honored with the elevation into the Russian nobility.

He occupied the post of envoy in Mexico from 1895 to 1900, but did not go there from Korea until 1897. In 1900 he was dismissed from his offices, but from 1902 to 1903 he was sent again as a special envoy to Korea. Von Waeber lived in St. Petersburg until 1908.

Waeber lived in the last phase of his life in the Villa Korea at Blumenstrasse 6, Niederlößnitz in Saxony. The tomb of Waebers in the Radebeul-West cemetery was made by the architects Otto Rometsch and Adolph Suppes , the sculptures by Ernst Thalheim . His wife Eugenie (1850–1921) and son Ernst (1873–1917) lie there next to Waeber.

Waeber was awarded the highest Russian order, the Order of St. Andrew the First Called .

literature

  • Sylvia Bräsel: Carl Friedrich Theodor von Waeber (1841-1910) - a German-born Russian diplomat, committed cultural mediator and staunch Lutheran in Korea in the run-up to colonization by Japan. In: Gützlaff-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Theology and Worldview. Vol. 2, Seoul / Korea, December 2014, pp. 11–33.
  • Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Iwanowisch Weber on rusdiplomats.narod.ru
  2. ↑ The, in contrast to the information in the other Wikipedias, partially different life dates are taken from the inscription on the tombstone and can be read on the adjacent photo with the appropriate enlargement. The deviation of the daily statement is on in Russia until 1918 used the Julian calendar (June 5 jul. / June 17, 1841 greg. ).
  3. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl von Waeber. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  4. ↑ Information from the current owner to users: Jbergner on June 14, 2009
  5. ↑ M. Volkov: Русские в Корее- имена и судьбы (Russians in Korea - Names and Fates). ( Memento of April 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Center for Contemporary Korean Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Korusforum Journal of May 23, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Waeber, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waeber, Carl Friedrich Theodor von; Waeber, Karl Iwanowitsch von; Вебер, Карл Фридрих Теодор фон; Вебер, Карл Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Russian envoy to Korea
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1841
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1910
Place of death Niederloessnitz