Georg Karl von Brevern

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Georg Karl von Brevern (also Karl Georg von Brevern ; born August 4, 1807 in Hallinap Harju , Estonia , † July 23, 1892 in Berlin ) was an Estonian lawyer , real privy councilor and member of the Russian State Council . He came from the German-Estonian noble family of the "von Brevern" .

Career

Georg Karl v. B. attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval from 1820 to 1825 , then studied from 1827 to 1832 at the University of Dorpat and graduated in 1834 with a law degree. His study trips took him between 1835 and 1838 to Germany , Switzerland and Italy . This was followed in 1838 by the office of deputy notary of the Livonian knighthood , in 1838 he became secretary of the Estonian knighthood and successfully campaigned for a right of use for farmers in the country. From 1844 to 1876 he worked in the imperial chancellery under Tsars Nicholas I (1825–1855) and Alexander II (1855–1881) in Saint Petersburg, focusing on the codification of state laws and the processing of questions about Baltic provincial law as well as the processing of Russian commercial and industrial law . From 1860 he was involved in the preparations for a judicial reform and was co-author of the so-called Zemstvo constitution and the Russian urban order. In 1860 Georg Karl v. B. appointed a privy councilor, from 1876 he was a senator and in 1877 he was appointed to the imperial council, where he worked in the department for laws and in 1885 in the general assembly. In 1879 he was appointed a real privy councilor. Brevern was interested in history, he supported researchers and promoted foreign research . He was an honorary member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia in Riga (GGuA) and the Estonian Literature Society, this “society was dedicated to German-Baltic culture and general national history”. He gave the literary society a total of 3,000 books and gave it 1616 volumes.

family

His grandparents were Heinrich Johann von Brevern (1749-1803) and Anna Elisabeth Staël von Holstein (1753-1824). His father was his son Heinrich Johann von Brevern auf Kostifer (1775-1824), his mother Helen Margarete Sophie was born von Benkendorff , with whom he was married in his first marriage. His paternal uncle was Christoph Engelbrecht von Brevern and his half-brother, from his second marriage to Maria De la Gardie , was Pontus Alexander Ludwig Graf von Brevern-de la Gardie . Georg Karl von Brevern was single.

Works

• The position of the administrative officials in the state: First chapter of an inaugural dissertation submitted to a highly ordained juristic faculty in Dorpat for the purpose of obtaining a master’s degree. Mullersche Buchdruckerei publishing house , Riga 1834.
• The relationship of the civil servants in the state. ; Eduard Franzzen's bookstore, Leipzig / Riga / Dorpat 1835.
• Studies on the history of Liv, Esth and Courland. First volume. The Liber Census Daniae and the early history of Harrien and Wirland (1219–1244) . Verlag Heinrich Laakmann , Dorpat 1858.
• On the history of the von Brevern family . 4 volumes. Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1878–1885.
• My memories of the beginnings of the second agricultural reform in Esthland: 1839 to 1842 . Printed by the Norddeutsche Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1892.
• Georg von Brevern, born August 4, 1807, died June 23, 1892: memories from his life and the beginnings of the second agricultural reform in Estonia from 1839 to 1842. Author Georg von Brevern, Verlag Kluge u. Ströhm, 1907.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Karl von Brevern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Bibliography Georg Karl von Brevern In: Carola L Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg - From the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 1: A-G. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manors in Estonia-Hallinap [1]
2. ↑ “The most lively institute of Russian public life, the Zemstvo, which is most firmly rooted in public opinion and has proven its efficiency, is at the same time the one that is most alien to the old Muscovite idea of ​​the class as a whole for the class shared duties: it is a modern self-governing body ... "; See: Max Weber : On the situation of bourgeois democracy in Russia. (online at zeno.org )
3. ↑ "With the introduction of the Russian town order of 1870 in the Baltic provinces (1877), German was permitted for the municipal institutions until further notice and was only eliminated for all authorities with the judicial reform of 1889 and replaced by Russian". See: Baltic Historical Commission - Introduction by Hermann Blaese; I. The official and court language [2]
4. ↑ Comparatively a department
5. ↑ Meeting reports of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia; RIGA digital. (on-line)
6. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature: From the Beginnings to the Present. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2006, ISBN 3-11-020167-4 , p. 95. (online)
7. ↑ George of Brewern: The position of civil servants in the state: First chapter of a ... Inaugural Dissertation . Müllersche Buchdr., 1834 ( google.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
8. ↑ George of BREWERN: The relation of the state administration officials in the state . 1835 ( google.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
9. ↑ Georg von Brevern: Studies on the history of Liv, Esth and Courland . H. Laakmann, 1858 ( google.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
10. ↑ Georg von Brevern: My memories of the beginning of the second agrarian reform in Esthland: 1839 to 1842 . Norddeutsche Buchdr., 1892 ( google.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
11. ↑ Georg von Brevern: Georg von Brevern, born August 4, 1807, died June 23, 1892: memories from his life and the beginnings of the second agricultural reform in Estonia from 1839 to 1842 . Kluge u. Ströhm, 1907 ( google.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).