Friedrich von Smitt

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Friedrich von Smitt ( Russian Фридрих фон Смитт ; * 9 January July / 20 January  1787 greg. In Narwa ; † 11 March July / 23 March  1865 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian historian of German origin.

Life

Smitt's father was First Notary of the Narva Magistrate and died in 1801. Smitt attended the municipal school in Narwa and then received private lessons with the Seydlitz brothers. In 1804 he was sent to Kiel to study theology at the University of Kiel . However, he was more interested in political and military science , especially since, thanks to his maternal uncle Merkel, who was major general of the artillery on the campaigns of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov in Poland. Lithuania and had participated against the Ottoman Empire , was enthusiastic about the great general Suworow early on .

After graduating, Smitt worked as a teacher in Narva. Later he went to Moscow and eagerly studied ancient Russian history . In the Franco-Russian War of 1812 , Smitt joined a volunteer regiment of the cavalry in St. Petersburg as a cornet . On the march to Riga he fell seriously ill with typhus . He lost his hearing and was discharged from military service. Smitt managed to become an assistant to the post commissioner in Warsaw . He later became the chancellery of Baron Pyotr Rosen and then military police director in the Russian army in the summer campaign of 1815 against Napoleon . 1815–1822 Smitt took on various office and management duties. Eventually he became a censor for newspapers at the post office in Vilnius .

Smitt's main work on Suworow and the fall of Poland was written in Vilnius and remained unfinished. The second part appeared in 1858, while for the third part he left only sketches and documents. The Russian edition of the first part appeared in 1886. In addition, Smitt dealt with the Franco-Russian War in 1812 and the Polish uprising of 1830–1831 with the campaign of Ivan Fyodorovich Paskewitsch . He also published the Memoirs of Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern .

In 1865 he was awarded the Demidow Prize for his works .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Смит, Федор (Фридрих) Иванович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 18 , 1904, pp. 663–665 ( Wikisource [accessed August 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Смит (Федор Иванович, 1788–1865) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXa, 1900, p. 544 ( Wikisource [accessed August 24, 2018]).
  3. ^ Friedrich von Smitt: Suworow and Polens Untergang, Volume 2: Poland's last confusions . Forgotten Books, 2018, ISBN 0-267-36875-5 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Smitt: Суворов и падение Польши. Часть I . Тип. Э. Веймара, St. Petersburg 1866.
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Smitt: For a more detailed explanation of the war of 1812 - according to archival sources . Forgotten Books, 2016, ISBN 1-333-20411-6 .
  6. ↑ Friedrich von Smitt: History of the Polish Uprising and War in the Years 1830 and 1831 - Represented according to authentic sources - Second part - With four battle plans and ten tables . 2nd Edition. Duncker & Humblot , 1848.
  7. ↑ Friedrich von Smitt: Field Marshal Paskewitsch's campaign in Poland in 1831 - based on authentic sources - With nine battle plans and sixteen tables . Duncker and Humblot, 1848.
  8. ^ Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern: Memories of a Livonian (from the years 1790–1815). Edited by Friedr. v. Smitt. 2 volumes . EF Winter, Leipzig, Heidelbert 1858.
personal data
SURNAME Smitt, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Смитт, Фридрих фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Narva
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1865
Place of death St. Petersburg