Eduard Alexander von der Brüggen

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Eduard Alexander Magnus Theophil Baron von der Brüggen (born January 4, 1822 in Arishof , Courland , † January 25, 1896 in Mitau ) was baron and lord of Arishof since 1862 . He was a state politician in Courland, held several high offices and campaigned for art and literature in the Courland Governorate .

Career

Alexander vdB attended the Gouvernements-Gymnasium in Mitau from 1836 to 1840 . He then studied at the Imperatorskij Derptskij Universitet until 1842 and in Berlin from 1846 to 1852 . After passing the state examination , he became an assessor at the Oberhauptmann -gericht in Grobin. He was elected captain in Grobin for the years 1856-1859, and until 1862 he was appointed captain in Mitau. For the years 1875 to 1878 he was elected land marshal in Courland, then he was Oberburggraf until 1879 , then ducal chancellor until 1887 and finally until 1889 court master of the Courland High Court. Between 1868 and 1890 he was a secular assessor in the Courland Consistory , of which he was also temporarily president, at the same time he was land messenger marshal for several terms and a total of three times director of the brotherly conference. In 1881 he was appointed honorary curator of the grammar school in Mitau and since 1891 he was director of the Mitauschen district committee of the Evangelical Lutheran relief fund. He was also the author of several articles in the Baltic Monthly . As a promoter of culture and literature, he was President from 1869 to 1876 and 1876 to 1893 and in 1891 honorary member of the Courland Society for Literature and Art , and from 1882 to 1892 director of the Courland Provincial Museum.

Origin and family

Alexander Eduard vd Brüggen came from the German-Baltic noble family von der Brüggen . His father was the Russian lieutenant Julius Magnus von der Brüggen (1790-1859), who was married to Charlotte von Fircks from the Heyden family (1799-1832), Eduard remained single.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel Notes . I. Employment: "... Eduard von der Brüggen as assessor of the Grobinschen Hauptmannsgericht". In: Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Das Inland. A weekly for Liv, Esthian and Curland history, geography, statistics and literature, Volume 11, Verlag Kluge, 1846, original from the Austrian National Library , digitized February 3, 2014 [1] , column 969/970, accessed March 12 2018
  2. ^ "In Courland, the state parliament met every three years in Mitau under the leadership of a country messenger marshal. In urgent cases the body of the Brotherly Conference decided ”. In: Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner, Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2007, ISBN 3110912139 [2] , page 36, accessed on March 12, 2018
  3. ↑ "During the reign of Alexander II, especially in the 1860s, not only in Russia but also in the Baltic Sea Governments 'support funds of the Evangelical Lutheran congregations'." In: Oekumenische Studien, publisher Ernst Benz, Verlag Brill Archive [3 ] , Page 23, accessed on March 12, 2018
  4. ↑ Baltic Monthly . Edited by Arnold von Tideböhl. Thirty-eighth [38th] year. XLIII. [43.] Band. With cover picture (portrait of Baron Alexander von der Vahlen). Tied up: Supplement to the Baltic monthly, January - December 1896. Publisher: Reval, Kluge, 1896 (description) [4] , accessed on March 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Meeting reports of the Courland Society for Literature and Art and annual reports of the Courland Provincial Museum [5]
personal data
SURNAME Brüggen, Eduard Alexander von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüggen, Alexander Eduard Magnus Theophil von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Land Marshal of the Duchy of Courland and Zemgale
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Arishof
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1896
Place of death Mitau