Filippo Paulucci

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Filippo Paulucci

Marquis Filippo Paulucci (born September 11, 1779 in Modena , † January 25, 1849 in Nice ) was an Italian soldier and politician .

Life

family

Coat of arms of the Marquis Paulucci

He came from an old Italian noble family. His father Joseph (Giuseppe), born in Pesaro , was the envoy of the Duke of Modena and died in Modena in 1785 as the real secret councilor of Emperor Joseph II. His mother Claudia was a née Countess Scutellari from Parma . The Marchesa Claudia Paolucci was a palace lady at the Modenese court, most recently with the Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Modena . Amilcare Paulucci was his older brother.

Career

After training at the Jesuit college , Paulucci entered the military in Piedmont in 1793 . Later he served in the French and then the Austrian army. In 1801 he joined the Italian armed forces as a colonel . In 1805 he was in command of the Cattaro fortress . After a short stay in France he was in Russian service from 1807 . In 1807 he negotiated for Russia with the Serbian voivod Kara Georgi . He fought on the Russian side in the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Swedish Wars . On June 22, 1808 he was promoted to major general . He was also awarded the Order of St. George IV Class.

From 1810 he then commanded a Georgian corps as chief of staff . On July 6, 1811 he became commander in chief in Georgia . In 1812 he received the Order of St. George III for the conquest of Dagestan . Class. In the same year he took over the role of Governor General of the Baltic States in Riga . He held this position until December 31, 1829.

In 1813 he was enrolled with the Livonian knighthood, in 1814 with the Courland and in 1817 with the Estonian, as Imperial Russian General en Chef , Adjutant General of the Emperor and Governor General of the Baltic provinces. His illegitimate son Hamilcar Paulucci, a captain in the Imperial Engineering Corps, received the 1829 Saxony-Coburg-Gotha nobility and 1830 Coburg the baron . This was recognized as a foreign one by the Austrian Emperor in Vienna in 1838. From his marriage to Wilhelmine Franziska von Koskull (1777-1824) he had a legitimate son, Alexander Nikolai Marquis Paulucci, on Troitzkoye near Odessa, imperial Russian chamberlain , who in 1890 received the Russian recognition of the marquist title.

In 1830 he went back to Italy and entered the Sardinian service. He then became governor of Genoa , inspector general of the Sardinian troops and minister of state.

The Paulucci monument was erected in his honor in the Latvian capital Riga .

literature

  • The civil and military commander-in-chief at the time of the Kaiser. Russian government over Estonia and Reval. In: Das Inland , June 13, 1855, No. 24, Col. 374
  • C. Bornhaupt: Draft of a geographical-statistical-historical description of LIv-Ehst-und Kurland , Wilhelm Ferdinand Häcker, Riga 1855, pp. 79-80
  • Русские портреты XVIII и XIX столетий. 2013, p. 195 (French)

Web links

Commons : Filippo Paulucci  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Munich newspapers, of which war, peace and state affairs, 1754, p. 548.
  2. ^ Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 2, 1825, p. 346.
  3. Annuaire historique et biographique des souverains, Volume 1, Part 4, 1846 ( digitized version )
  4. Calendario di Corte in Modena, Modena 1795, p. 21.
  5. Almanacco di Corte, Modena 1821, p. 119.
  6. ^ Biography of Paulucci delle Roncole, Amilcare Ambrosio
  7. ^ Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses . 21st year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1848, p. 366.
  8. GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume X, Limburg an der Lahn 1999, p. 204 f.