Gotthilf Theodor von Faber

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Theodor von Faber (* February 4 . Jul / 15. February  1766 greg. In Riga ; † 28. November 1847 in Paris ) was a Baltic German lawyer and writer .

Life

Theodor von Faber grew up in Magdeburg and studied law at the universities in Halle (Saale) , Jena and Strasbourg . In 1789 he went to Paris and in 1792 joined the French revolutionary army. He fought in Champagne and Belgium and was captured by Austria in 1793, from which he fled in 1795. He was employed in the French civil administration in Aachen and Kleve and was most recently a professor in Cologne. In 1805, von Faber accepted an appointment at the University of Vilnius, but then went to Saint Petersburg, where he worked in the foreign service. He lived in Livonia between 1807 and 1812, after which he was an officer in the Ministry of Police. In 1816 he became a member of the Russian legation in Frankfurt a. M. and in 1818 appointed to the Real Council of State at the Aachen Congress . Theodor von Faber lived in different places in Germany until 1840 (1822 in Mainz , 1834 in Koblenz ). After his retirement in 1840 he lived in Switzerland and from 1843 in Paris.

Works

Of his political-historical writings, the following should be mentioned:

  • Notices sur l'intérieur de la France , Petersburg 1807.
  • Observations sur l'armée francaise 1792-1807 , the. 1808; German, Königsberg 1808.
  • Bagatelles. Promenades d'un désoeuvré dans la ville de St-Pétersbourg , Petersburg 1811. 2 volumes; German, Leipzig 1814 ( digital copy from the holdings of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research ).
  • Contributions to the characteristics of the French state constitution and state administration during Bonaparte's epoch , Königsberg 1815.
  • Le comte J. Capodistrias . In preparation for the future history of the political restoration of Greece , Paris 1842.

literature

  • Gerd Robel and Hergard Robel: Alieni de Russia: Russia reports from the oldest times up to the year 1855 , Bd. 3,3 (1811-12). (= Communications / Eastern European Institute Munich; 30). Munich: Eastern Europe Institute, 1999. ISBN 3-921396-41-7 . ( Online version (PDF; 582 kB), last accessed on November 22, 2013).

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personal data
SURNAME Faber, Gotthilf Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faber, Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1847
Place of death Paris