Harald von Toll

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Harald Baron Toll, portrait around 1900

Baron Harald Alexander Christian Toll ( Russian Харальд Александр Кристиан фон Толь ; born May 5, jul. / 17th May  1848 greg. In Kuckers , † September 9 jul. / 22. September  1909 greg. In Reval ) was a Baltic German knights Secretary and city ​​councilor in Reval.

Life

origin

Harald was a member of the noble family of the Barons von Toll . He was a son of the Russian colonel and Estonian district administrator Robert Baron Toll (1802–1876) and Marie, b. Countess von Igelström (1818–1869), daughter of the Russian major general Alexander von Igelström († 1855).

Career

Toll attended the Reval Cathedral School from 1858 to 1860 and from 1862 to 1870 , as well as a private school in Reval from 1860 to 1862. He studied law in Dorpat from 1870 to 1876 , where he won a gold medal in 1873.

After this he devoted himself as a farmer of Gutswirtschaft on his inheritance Kuckers but also undertook study trips to Germany . from 1878 to 1899 he was secretary of the Estonian knighthood and from 1878 to 1885 city councilor in Reval. In 1881 he was the delegate of the Estonian Knighthood to the Estonian Central Census Commission and since 1883 also a member of the Estonian Statistical Committee, also since 1883 secretary and since 1899 a permanent member of the Estonian Knighthood Registration Commission.

Nicely edited history and genealogies of most of the families of Estonian knighthood. Since 1887 he was a corresponding member of the Estonian Scholarly Society in Dorpat and since 1894 of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga, as well as an honorary member of the Estonian Literary Society .

family

The 1880 with Alexandra Marie v. Tobiesen (1854–1899), daughter of the Russian vice admiral and port commander of Reval Johannes von Tobiesen (1808–1899), married couple remained childless.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods. Part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 426 ; S. 429- 430 .
  2. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 651.
personal data
SURNAME Great, Harald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toll, Harald Alexander Christian von (full name); Толь, Харальд Александр Кристиан фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian Knight Secretary and City Councilor in Reval
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuckers
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1909
Place of death Reval