Gotthard Emanuel von Aderkas

Baron Gotthard Emanuel von Aderkas , also: Aderkaß (* October 28, 1773 , † October 25, 1861 in Arensburg auf Oesel ) was a German-Baltic diplomat and administrative officer in the Russian service .

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Emanuel was one of 14 children of the landowner and captain Gotthard Wilhelm von Aderkas (1741-1813) on Peudorf (today Oti , Saaremaa municipality ). The Aderkas family belongs to the German-Baltic nobility. In 1791 he entered the service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg . In 1796 he was given leave of absence to study at the University of Göttingen , where he enrolled in statistics and mainly attended lectures and seminars with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . In the summer of 1798 he returned to St. Petersburg and became a collegiate assistant at the College of Foreign Affairs. He went to Karlsruhe and Stuttgart as an envoy and in 1808 was a member of the Russian embassy in Prussia . In 1809 he was posted as a consular agent to Kristiansand in Norway and in 1810 as consul general to Lübeck . Here he belonged to the circle around the Reformed pastor Johannes Geibel and was one of the co-founders of the Lübeck Mission Society in 1820 with Christian Adolph Overbeck and Carl Wilhelm Pauli .

In the same year Aderkas was recalled to St. Petersburg. When the General Consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Russian Empire was founded in 1820, he became a member at the personal request of the first Bishop Cygnaeus . In 1822 he sued as a member of the high school administration in a public trial against professors of St. Petersburg University. In 1826 he was promoted to the State Council of the Ministry of National Education. He later served as President of the Imperial Russian Philanthropic Society and the College of General Welfare. Between 1838 and 1848 he was curator of the Riga and Oesel universities. Appointed privy councilor in 1851, he spent the last two years of his life at Ösel , where he owned the Thalick estate.

In 1807 he married Charlotte Elisabeth von Nolcken in St. Petersburg ; in his second marriage he married Evgenija Michailovna Miagkova; since 1793 he was related by marriage to Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Luce .

Awards

• 1814 Order of St. Anna 2nd class
• 1829 Order of St. Vladimir 4th class
• 1832 Order of St. Vladimir 3rd class
• 1834 Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class with star

literature

• Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenberg's listener. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006 (Lichtenberg-Studien 14) ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 , p. 62f.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gotthard Emanuel von Aderkas. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Information about Aderkas on the website of Oti Manor (Peudorf manor)