Gustav Johann von Buddenbrock

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Gustav Johann von Buddenbrock as a student (1778), Schubert silhouette collection

Gustav Johann von Buddenbrock (born September 5, 1758 in Schujenpahlen, today: Budenbroki , Dikļi municipality , Latvia ; † December 14, 1821 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic noble landowner, lawyer and national politician in Livonia .

Life

Gustav Johann von Buddenbrock was a son of the German-Baltic landowner Gustav Reinhold von Buddenbrock (1694–1779) from his second marriage to Eleonore von Palmstrauch. He studied law from Easter 1775 in Königsberg and from October 1775 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In Göttingen he is a member of the Kurlanders' Landsmannschaft , 1777–1778 as their senior , and as a member of the influential ZN student order with an outstanding role in the student body. After finishing his studies in 1779 he became a judge in Livonia . As a deputy of the Livonian Knighthood , he took part in the coronation of Tsar Paul I in Moscow in 1797 . 1800–1803 he was Livonian land marshal and headed the reform state parliament in 1803. Buddenbrock was district administrator of Livonia from 1802 to 1821 and from 1813 to 1815 also worked in Livonia's peasant affairs in the Russian Ministry of the Interior in St. Petersburg. From 1815 on, he lived in Riga and from 1817 he was the church leader of the Wendish district and was involved in drafting provincial bills such as the Livonian Peasant Ordinance.

Gustav Johann von Buddenbrock was the heir to Essenhof, today Lielāmuiža , (1806), Saadsen (1800) and Meselau (1804). In 1786 in Riga he married Sophia Helena Freiin von Budberg , daughter of the painter Woldemar Dietrich von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1740–1784). The two had ten children together, five of whom died in childhood.

Honors

Fonts

  • Lieland knight law. Or High German translation of the common rights of the monastery of Riga , Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, Riga 1794 (digitized UB Tartu)
  • High German translation of the Sigimund nobility privilege of November 28, 1561 , 1802
  • De Gemenen Stichtischenrechte, ym Sticht van Ryga, went to Ridderrecht , [Riga] 1802
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the provincial constitution and administration of the Duchy of Livonia, excluding the province of Oesel: a supplement to the first part of the Livonian magazine, or the collection of publicistic-statistical materials on the knowledge of the constitution and statistics of Livonia , Drechsler, St. Petersburg 1804
  • State regulations from the year 1621 to 1680 , Häcker, 1821
  • Regional regulations from 1680 to 1710 , Häcker, 1821
  • Collection of laws that contain today's Livonian land law: Critically edited , Steffenhagen and son

literature

  • Otto Deneke : Old Göttingen Landsmannschaften, Göttingen 1937
  • Otto Deneke: Göttingen Student Order, Göttingen 1938
  • Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN Order , in: Once and Now. 1974 yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, pp. 30–54

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1777 he is named as the senior of the Kurlanders in the protocols of the Hanoverian Landsmannschaft ; see: Deneke (1937).
  2. ^ Richter (1974), No. 94; Register holder of the city archives Göttingen 14 , 146; Einträger Stammbuch Patkul , p. 118.
  3. ↑ Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (arrangement): Genealogical Handbook of Livonian Knighthood , Part 1, 2: Livland, Lfg. 9–15, Bd .: 2, Görlitz, (approx. 1935), p. 995.


personal data
SURNAME Buddenbrock, Gustav Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Livonian lawyer, country marshal, district administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Budenbroki, Dikļi Municipality , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1821
Place of death Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire