Georg Magnus Sprengtporten
Georg Magnus Sprengtporten (Finnish: Yrjö Maunu ; born August 16, 1740 in Porvoo , † October 13, 1819 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Finnish military and politician. He was the first Russian governor general of the Grand Duchy of Finland .
Life
Georg (or Göran) Magnus Sprengtporten was a son of Major Magnus Wilhelm Sprengtport and his wife Elsa Katarina Ulfsparre.
Sprengtporten entered Swedish military service and took part in the Pomeranian War against Prussia in 1757 . He founded a cadet school in Kuopio in 1780 , which was moved to Rantasalmi a year later . As he found his military services not appreciated by the Swedish king , he turned to Russia and, at the invitation of Tsarina Catherine II, assumed command as a general of a Russian army corps that defeated the Swedish troops in Finland during the Russo-Swedish War judged. He was wounded in the battle of Porrassalmi in June 1789.
After Finland was detached from Sweden, Sprengtporten was appointed the first Russian Governor General of the Grand Duchy of Finland on November 19, 1808. But on June 17, 1809 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was appointed his successor. Sprengtporten died in Saint Petersburg and was buried in the Smolensker Evangelical Cemetery there.
He was married three times. In 1764 he married Anna Elisabet Glansenstierna (1746–1785), a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Lorenz Glasenstierna (1706–1774) and Vendela Eleonora Torwigge (1714–1782). From 1788 to 1797 he was married to the Dutch Countess Anna Charlotte d'Aumale (1763-1839) and then to the Russian Countess Varwara Nikolajewna Samytsky († 1850). His son Magnus Wilhelm (1772–1801) became a lieutenant colonel.
Awards
- 1789: Russian Order of Saint Anne
- 1801: Alexander Nevsky Order
literature
- Georg Magnus Sprengtporten . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 503 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Biografiakeskus (Finnish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprengtporten, Georg Magnus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sprengtporten, Yrjö Maunu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish military and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Porvoo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1819 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |