Denffer (noble family)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of those of Denffer

Denffer is the name of an old noble family from Courland .

history

At the time of the Holy Roman Empire, this family came to Courland from the south ( Bas-Poitou , Burgundian Circle ) via Holland . The first Denffer documented in Courland to date is Georg Christoph gen. Jansen, a Lutheran clergyman who blessed the temporal during a severe plague epidemic . His name is immortalized on the Great Plague Stone of Irben and is also mentioned in a boastful poem. The first Denffer in Courland with fully secured life data is the naturalist Johann Heinrich von Denffer (1700–1770), who is listed as a noble in the general dictionary of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Ehstland and Courland .

Some members of the family were high-ranking officials and military personnel in the Courland, Polish and Russian services and there were, repeatedly several times, landowners and manors among them. What is striking is a recurring artistic talent, such as the painting talents Johann Heinrich (see above), Dietrich Peter (Courland court painter, approx. 1706–1763), Johann Eugenius (1734–1801), Ernst Johann (1740–1800), Cornelia ( 1822–1912), Helene (1866–1950) and the oriental painter Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (1856–1893, son of Theophile von Denffer (1824–1902)), with the authors August (1827–1888), Alexander (1874–1919 ) and Nelly von Denffer (1902–1987), the musicians Ida (1853–1936) and Leonid (1908–1997) as well as the visual artists Angela Hopf-von Denffer (* 1941), Christiane Justus-von Denffer (* 1948) and the media designer Hanna von Denffer (* 1988). A generally high affinity for science should also be noted.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a shield, split by red and black , with two erect, diagonally crossed, gold-handled silver swords , angled by four silver balls . On the helmet with a red and gold cover on the right, black and gold on the left, a golden crown , over it an upright, gold-handled silver sword between the right red and left black eagle flight , each covered with a silver ball.

Personalities (selection)

  • Johann Heinrich von Denffer called Jansen (1700–1770), clergyman from Kurland, German chemist and pioneer of agricultural sciences
  • Dietrich Peter Denffer called Jansen (1706–1763), Courland court painter
  • August von Denffer (1786–1860), Department President of the Russian Imperial Council, Real Privy Councilor, Senator, Governor, Honorary Member of Moscow University
  • Constantin von Denffer (1802-1856), Russian major general
  • Hermann Julius von Denffer (1838–1918), managing director of the Courland government
  • Natalie Agnes von Denffer (1839–1915), wife of Hermann Julius, sister of the German-Baltic writer Theodor Hermann Pantenius
  • Johann von Denffer (1851–1936), Russian Real State Councilor, university lecturer and school councilor, honorary citizen of Baku
  • Otto Paul von Denffer (1871–1959), German-Baltic engineer and university professor
  • Alexander von Denffer (1847–1919), Kurland author, biographer of Theodor Hermann Pantenius
  • Harald von Denffer (1877–1918), German-Baltic genealogist
  • Herbert Julius von Denffer (1907–1988), German-Baltic mathematician, director of the Munich Reinsurance Company
  • Dietrich von Denffer (1914–2007), German botanist and university professor
  • Margrit-Angela Hopf-von Denffer (* 1941), German painter and author
  • Hans von Denffer (* 1942), German ophthalmologist and university professor
  • Enno von Denffer (* 1947), German media expert and journalist
  • Ahmad von Denffer (* 1949), German journalist and Islamic scholar

  • Johann Heinrich v. Denffer doing the land survey

  • SE (Excellency) August von Denffer

  • Helene von Denffer, porcelain sculpture

  • Magdalenenlust manor, family home of Dietrich von Denffers

literature

  • Pedigree August v. Denffer. In: Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics 1904, p. 199
  • Harald von Denffer: From the Chronicle of the Kurländischen Denffer's. In: Heraldisch-Genealogische Blätter 3, 1906, pp. 43–45
  • Ahmad von Denffer: Contributions to a story of the von Denffer family , Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-7113-1
  • Ahmad von Denffer: The Courland family v. Denffer. In: Archiv ostdeutscher Familienforscher 10, 1986–1988, pp. 197–206
  • Harald von Denffer: The first Kurland Denffers. In: Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde 5, 1904–1905, pp. 187–188
  • Harald von Denffer: Foundation stone for a story of the von Denffer family. Genealogical and biographical notes , Batum 1906
  • Ahmad von Denffer: Ancestry of the Kurland family of Denffer called Jansen. In: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln, Vol. 48, 2006, pp. 90-133
  • Friedrich Siegmund von Klopmann : Kurländische Güterchroniken , Mitau 1856
  • Courland Knighthood Archives, Hessian State Archives Marburg, holdings 701
  • B. Meder: The structural change in the Baltic way of life in the middle of the 18th century , Dortmund 1961
  • M. Müller: Contribution to the Baltic heraldry , Riga 1931
  • Karl Eduard Napiersky ; Johann Friedrich von Recke : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Ehstland and Courland , Mitau 1827
  • Alexander von Denffer: Theodor Hermann Pantenius : Kurlands Heimat Dichter , Verlag F. Würth, Berlin 1918.
  • Gustav Otto ; Theodor Kallmeyer: The Evangelical Churches and Preachers of Courland , Riga 1910
  • Gustav Otto: Des Pastors zu Rönnen EJ Pernitz Stammbuch , in: Meeting reports of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art , Mitau 1894
  • Theodor Hermann Pantenius: From my youth , R. Voigtländers Verlag, Leipzig 1907
  • W. Wheels: Kurland Academic Families , Marburg 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald von Denffer: Foundation stone for a story of the von Denffer family. Genealogical and biographical notes , Batum 1906, p. 12 f.
  2. ↑ Gustav Otto: Des Pastors zu Rönnen EJ Pernitz Stammbuch , in: Meeting reports of the Courland Society for Literature and Art, Mitau 1894, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Gustav Otto; Theodor Kallmeyer: The Evangelical Churches and Preachers of Courland , Riga 1910, p. 315 f.
  4. ^ Theodor Hermann Pantenius : From my youth , Leipzig 1907, p. 110.
  5. ^ Ahmad von Denffer: Contributions to a history of the family von Denffer , Norderstedt 2006, pp. 47, 69, ISBN 978-3-8334-7113-1 .
  6. ↑ Ahmad von Denffer: Contributions to a story of the family von Denffer , Norderstedt 2006, p. 15 u. 142-144, ISBN 978-3-8334-7113-1 .
  7. ^ Karl Eduard Napiersky ; Johann Friedrich von Recke : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Ehstland and Courland , Mitau 1827, p. 413.
  8. ^ About this section as a whole: Ahmad von Denffer: Contributions to a story of the von Denffer family , Norderstedt 2006, pp. 137–268, ISBN 978-3-8334-7113-1 .
  9. ↑ Alexander von Denffer: Theodor Hermann Pantenius : Kurlands Heimat Dichter , Verlag F. Würth, Berlin 1918.

Web links

Commons : Denffer  - collection of images, videos and audio files