Eduard Nikolai von Middendorff

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Eduard Nikolai Middendorff (born November 29 . Jul / 11. December  1849 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 12. May 1903 in Berlin ) was a Baltic German landowners and politicians .

Life

Eduard Nikolai von Middendorff was born the son of the landowner and professor Gottfried Woldemar von Middendorff (1787–1875) and his wife Christine, née Wardrope-Forbes, (1806–1892). He attended the cathedral school in Reval and the grammar schools in the Livonian towns of Birkenruh and Dorpat .

From the summer semester of 1860 to the summer semester of 1863 he studied chemistry at the Imperial University of Dorpat . In 1863 he became a member of Estonia . From the winter semester of 1863 to the summer semester of 1864, he studied civil engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic . At Christmas 1863, Baltica Zurich made him an honorary member. He continued his engineering studies in the winter semester of 1864 at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic . He graduated as a civil engineer at the end of the winter semester of 1865.

From 1867 to 1874 he worked as an engineer building various railway lines in Russia . In 1868 he became the owner of his father's estate Pennijöggi (Estonian Penijõe ) and in 1875 of the Kollo estate (Estonian Kolu ) in Estonia . In 1880 he became administrator of the estates of Grand Duchess Katharina Mikhailovna Romanova in Russia.

From 1884 to 1887 he was a district judge assessor , hook judge , member of the Estonian commission for peasant affairs, member of the Estonian aristocratic credit fund and member of the Estonian budget commission.

Private life

Since 1875 von Middendorff was married to Henriette Freiin von Budberg , daughter of the Estonian Knighthood Secretary Reinhold Freiherr von Budberg auf Wannamois (Estonian Vanamõisa ). The marriage produced three daughters.

literature

  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Nikolai von Middendorff in: Erik Amburger Database - Foreigners in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
personal data
SURNAME Middendorff, Eduard Nikolai von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1903
Place of death Berlin