Hermann de Pourtales
Hermann de Pourtales 
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| Birthday: | March 31, 1847 | |||||||||
| Place of birth: | Neuchâtel | |||||||||
| Date of death: | November 28, 1904 | |||||||||
| Place of death: | Geneva | |||||||||
| Society: | Société Nautique de Genève | |||||||||
| Boat classes: | 1 to 2 tons | |||||||||
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Hermann Alexander de Pourtalès (born March 31, 1847 in Neuchâtel , † November 28, 1904 in Geneva ) was a Swiss sailor . He belonged to the old Huguenot family of the Pourtalès , who had been raised to the rank of count by the Prussian king (the canton of Neuchâtel was also a Prussian principality until 1857). One of his brothers was the landscape painter Auguste de Pourtalès .
At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 , he and his second wife Hélène de Pourtalès and his nephew Bernard de Pourtalès formed the crew of the boat Lérina , which competed in the boat class 1 to 2 tons. They won the first race on the Seine in Meulan-en-Yvelines and came second in the second, separately ranked race.
A son from his first marriage to Marguerite Marcet is the writer Guy de Pourtalès .
Web links
- Hermann de Pourtalès in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Pourtalès, Hermann de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pourtalès, Hermann Alexander de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1904 |
| Place of death | Geneva |