Heinrich von Struve

Heinrich Christian Gottfried von Struve (born January 10, 1772 in Regensburg , † January 9, 1851 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat and mineralogist .

Life

Heinrich von Struve was the son of the Russian agent and later Russian envoy in Regensburg Anton Sebastian von Struve (born April 2, 1729 in Kiel , † April 7, 1802 in Greiz ), who had lived with Sophia Dorothea since May 11, 1756. Reimers († April 21, 1795) was married. She was the daughter of the former ducal Holstein legation secretary Reimers at the Reichstag in Regensburg . The couple had a total of twelve children, of whom Struve's older brothers Johann Gustav von Struve (born September 26, 1763 in Regensburg; † May 6, 1828 in Karlsruhe ) and Johann Georg von Struve (born November 11, 1766 in Regensburg; † 1 September 1831 in Jena ) became important diplomats.

Struve attended high school in his hometown, studied political science in Erlangen and came to Bonn around the beginning of 1789 , presumably to visit his sister Susanna Maria († March 1789 in Bonn) who worked with the diplomat Johann Ludwig Dörfeld (1744 –1829) was married. Struve stayed in Bonn even after the death of his sister and was soon one of the young Beethoven's closest friends . On October 30, 1792, Struve wrote in the composer's record book, which the composer received as a gift before he left for Vienna :

Destiny of man.
Knowing truth, loving beauty,
wanting good, doing the best.
Bonn, October 30th, 1792.
Think, even remotely, sometimes of your
true sincere friend
Heinr. Struve from Regensbrg.
in Russian Kaiserl. Service
symbol [um] After the blossoming of youth, in ripe old age reaped
the fruits of wisdom.

In the first three lines Struve quotes the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn . His signature indicates that he was already in the Russian civil service at the time - presumably as an assistant to his father. At the end of 1796 he accompanied the Russian State Councilor Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm to his post as envoy to the Lower Saxony district in Hamburg and later to Braunschweig. In 1810 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1813 Struve was appointed Russian Chargé d'Affaires , then Minister Resident and from 1821 Russian State Council in the Hanseatic cities of Bremen , Hamburg and Lübeck . In recognition of his services, he was awarded the Second Class Order of St. Anne in 1812 and the Order of St. Vladimir in 1814 . In 1816 he became a corresponding member of the kaiserl. Russian Academy of Sciences .

Over the years, Struve built up an extensive mineral collection. The whereabouts are not clear. It is said to have been acquired by the Natural Science Association in Bremen in 1820 and is now part of the holdings of the University of Bremen . In the address books of Hamburg for the years 1830 and later there are repeated references to "the large, valuable and, due to the excellent systematic arrangement and selection of the specimens, extremely instructive mineral collection". Other parts of Struve's collection are preserved in the Fersman Museum in Moscow . Struve was co-founder of a natural science museum in Hamburg and was made an honorary citizen of Hamburg on August 10, 1843 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary of service . In 1822 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The chemist Georg Ludwig Ulex named the mineral struvite after Struve.

In Hamburg he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Absalom zu den Three Netteln .

Heinrich von Struve had married Elisabeth Wilhelmine Sidonie Countess Oexle von Friedenberg (1780–1837) in 1801. The daughter Therese , who was born in Stuttgart in 1804, came from this marriage .

Writings and works

Heinrich von Struve: Letters from the far north and from the interior of Russia, written on a trip in the years 1833 and 1839. Based on the original French letters to the Kaiser. Russian Minister-Resident, real Councilor of State of Struve in Hamburg . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1840.
Heinrich Christoph Gottfried von Struve: The memory of the king. Danish budget councilor and knight, Caspar Freiherrn von Voght, dedicated by one of his friends . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1839 ( books.google.de ).
Frederika Kudriavskaia von Freygang, Wilhelm von Freygang: Letters about the Caucasus and Georgia from 1812 . Strauss, Vienna 1826 ( books.google.de - French: Lettres sur le Caucase et la Georgie. Suivies d'une revelation d'un voyage en Perse en 1812. Hamburg. Translated by Heinrich von Struve).
Heinrich von Struve: Contributions to the mineralogy and geology of northern America. Adapted from American magazines by . Perthes & Besser, Hamburg 1822 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Heinrich von Struve: Mineralogical contributions, especially with regard to Würtemberg and the Black Forest . Ettinger, Gotha 1807 ( books.google.de ).
Councilor von Struve: Comments on the alum slate quarry and the alum boiling plant near Reichenbach in the Vogtlande . In: Johann Heinrich Voigt (Hrsg.): Magazine for the latest state of natural history with consideration for the associated auxiliary sciences . tape 11 . Verl. Des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1806, p. 522 f . ( zs.thulb.uni-jena.de [accessed on April 24, 2017]).

portrait

Friedrich Adolph Hornemann : Heinrich Christoph Gottfried Struve, lithograph, (1849?), Print: Charles Fuchs , Hamburg, digitized

literature

Max Braubach : About the people and life in Bonn at the time of the young Beethoven and Babette Koch-Belderbusch. In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Volume 23 (1969), pp. 51-121, here pp. 57 f.
Heinrich Christian Gottfried von Struve. In: Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia. Regensburg Natural Sciences , Vol. 24–26, Natural Science Association Regensburg, 1962, pp. 135 f., PDF on ZOBODAT
3966. from Struve (Heinrich Christian Gottfried) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present / on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History . Founded by Hans Schröder , continued by AH Kellinghusen. Volume 7 (1879), Scholvin - Westphalen, p. 336, archive.org
Conversations Lexicon: in two volumes. S – Z, and supplements. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1826, p. 289 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Autographs Struve, Heinrich Christian Gottfried von (1772–1851) in Kalliope
Heinrich Christoph Gottfried von Struve (1772-1851). In: Ehrenbürger vor 1900. Senate Chancellery (hamburg.de), July 3, 1843, accessed on April 19, 2017 .
von Struve, Heinrich Christoph Gottfried. In: collectors and other important persons in the collection. GSUB Geoscientific Collection of the University of Bremen FB5, accessed on December 22, 2016 .
Member entry of Heinrich Christoph von Struve at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.

Remarks

^ Genealogical table for the Struve family
↑ Max Braubach : The family books of Beethoven and Babette Koch. 2nd edition, Bonn 1995, p. 23.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 236.
↑ 4. Promotions and honors. In: Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (ed.): Paperback for the entire mineralogy , 9th year, Joh. Christ. Hermann, Frankfurt / M. 1815, p. 567, digitized .
↑ Contained in: Writing St. Petersburg?. April. In: Hanseatische privilegierte Zeitung , Hamburg, Friday, May 10, 1816, title page, digitized version .
↑ 4. Overview of the mineral cabinet of the k. Russian Minister and Consul General Mr. Ritters Heinrich von Struve in Hamburg. In: Karl Caesar Ritter von Leonhard : Pocket book for the entire mineralogy. Volume 15, Joh. Christ. Hermannsche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / M., 1821, p. 384 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
^ Collectors and other important persons in the collection, GSUB Geoscientific Collection of the University of Bremen.
↑ Hamburg address book from 1830, p. 636.

predecessor	Office	successor
Andrei Forsman (until 1806)	Russian envoy to the Hanseatic cities 1814–1850	Gustav of Struve

personal data
SURNAME	Struve, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Struve, Heinrich Christian Gottfried von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Russian diplomat and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH	regensburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1851
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Genealogical table for the Struve family

[2] Max Braubach : The family books of Beethoven and Babette Koch. 2nd edition, Bonn 1995, p. 23.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 236.

[4] 4. Promotions and honors. In: Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (ed.): Paperback for the entire mineralogy , 9th year, Joh. Christ. Hermann, Frankfurt / M. 1815, p. 567, digitized .

[5] Contained in: Writing St. Petersburg?. April. In: Hanseatische privilegierte Zeitung , Hamburg, Friday, May 10, 1816, title page, digitized version .

[6] 4. Overview of the mineral cabinet of the k. Russian Minister and Consul General Mr. Ritters Heinrich von Struve in Hamburg. In: Karl Caesar Ritter von Leonhard : Pocket book for the entire mineralogy. Volume 15, Joh. Christ. Hermannsche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / M., 1821, p. 384 ff. ( Books.google.de ).

[7] Collectors and other important persons in the collection, GSUB Geoscientific Collection of the University of Bremen.

[8] Hamburg address book from 1830, p. 636.