Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas

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Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas , also Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Aderkas (born June 30, 1767 in Breslau , † March 28, 1843 in Herrnhut ) was a German officer and professor of war science at the Imperial University of Dorpat .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas came from the Kervel line of the German-Baltic noble family Aderkas . His great-grandfather had entered the Danish service as an officer from the Baltic States . This branch of the family has been devoted to Pietism since the middle of the 18th century .

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl was the son of the Prussian captain Franz Ludwig Bernhard von Aderkas (1715–1792) and his second wife Johanna Marie, born von Hohendorff . He grew up in Breslau and in Große Salza and attended the cathedral high school in Magdeburg . In 1782 he entered the Prussian military service and took part in campaigns on the Rhine in 1791/92. He became staff captain in the cadet corps in Berlin and, as a member, was entrusted with editing the memorabilia of the military society .

In 1803 he left the Prussian army with the rank of major and was appointed director of the Pagenhaus am Hof in Braunschweig by Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Braunschweig . He stayed here until 1806. In that year Aderkas fell into a severe depression , retired and went to Wernigerode , where his uncle Christoph Ernst von Aderkas (1720–1792) had worked as court master of Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . In 1810 he was reactivated as a Prussian major. The organization of the Landsturm in the Halberstädtischer Kreis was entrusted to him as a division general .

In 1819 he was appointed professor of war science in the Livonian town of Tartu (German Dorpat ) and received the title of Imperial Russian Councilor ; when this professorship was canceled in the course of a university reform in 1830, he first went to Dresden and lived with his brother, the pastor emeritus of Grünhain Abel Ernst Ludwig von Aderkas (1763-1834) , who retired in 1832 . After his death he moved to Herrnhut to spend his retirement years with the congregation .

His eldest (half) sister Henriette Charlotte Elisabeth (1748–1819) had married Julius Friedrich von Tschirsky, a member of the Brethren, here in 1768 and died in mercy . Shortly before his death, he published spiritual songs.

Aderkas was never married and was considered by his contemporaries to be a man with lively, bizarre manners . With him, the Kervel line of the von Aderkas family died out.

Fonts

  • Poems 1786–1798 ooo J. (around 1810)

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 22 (1844), Part Two. Voigt, Weimar 1846, pp. 889-891
  • Georg Julius Schultz-Bertram: Dorpat's sizes and types forty years ago. Wilhelm glasses , Dorpat 1868, p. 31.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The causes of this lie partly in the realm of secrecy, partly they are too delicate in nature to be published; in any case, however, the misfortune of Prussia after the battles of Jena and Auerstädt contributed a lot to it ... Nekrolog (lit.), p. 890.
  2. ^ In Wildenhahn's Friedensboten , Volume I, Leipzig 1843.
  3. ↑ Schultz-Bertram (lit.), p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Aderkas, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aderkas, Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and professor of war science
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1843
Place of death Herrnhut