Ernst Carl von der Brüggen

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Ernst Carl von der Brüggen (born November 10, 1840 in Laidsen , Courland , † December 5, 1903 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic editor and political author .

Life

Origin and family

The unmarried Ernst Carl vdB came from the German-Baltic noble family von der Brüggen . His father was in Russian service, Lieutenant Colonel Axel Heinrich von der Brüggen (1799–1868), who was married to Johanna von Liphardt (1810–1878).

Career

Ernst Carl received until it into the school in Dorpat came in home schooling . Then he attended the school facility Schmidtsche Anstalt in Fellin and passed the school leaving examination . He studied law at the University of Dorpat from 1860 to 1864 , moved to Berlin in 1865 and then to Dresden and came back to Riga in 1866.

His professional career began in 1867 as a civil servant in the Livonian governor's government , where he remained until 1871. From 1870 to 1872 he was editor of the Baltic Monthly . During his travels to Germany , Holland and Italy he gained journalistic experience and in 1876 worked for the National-Zeitung in Berlin . Then he moved from 1879 to 1882 and again in 1886 as a farmer to Degaizen in the Kovno governorate ( Telšiai district ). From 1882 to 1886 he worked as a writer in Berlin and from 1885 to 1886 he was involved in the founding of the German Colonial Society and in 1885 temporarily employed in the Foreign Office in Berlin. From 1869 he was the owner of the Degaizen estate.

Works

  • Political articles in the Baltic monthly , the Deutsche Rundschau , Die Grenzbote and the National-Zeitung .
  • Poland's dissolution, cultural-historical sketches from the last period of Polish independence (1882);
  • Russia and the Jews (1882); archive.org
  • How Russia Became European, Cultural Studies (1885); < archive.org
  • Modern Russia, Cultural Studies (1902); archive.org
  • Other: Letter December 2, 1890. Contents: Shchedrin translation; Criticism of the Prussian yearbooks .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst von der Brüggen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laidsen: et: Laidze
  2. ^ Baltic monthly / register 1859-1939: Baltic monthly / register 1859-1939 osmikon.de
  3. ↑ Otto Neuendorff: Repertory of the letters from the Walter de Gruyter archive , selected by Otto Neuedorff. Edited by Anne-Katrin Ziesak. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016521-X , p. 37, books.google.de .
personal data
SURNAME Brüggen, Ernst Carl von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüggen, Ernst Carl Friedrich Martin Baron von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German political author
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Laidsen, Courland
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1903
Place of death Riga