Hoerschelmann (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Hoerschelmann

Hoerschelmann , actually Horschelmann , Russian Гершельман = Gershelman, is the name of a middle-class family originally from Thuringia, from a branch in the 18th century to the Baltic States came there in 1838 and in 1843 the hereditary nobility Russian service received .

history

The family comes from the Hörselberge and traces its line of roots back to the Erfurt pastor and superintendent Johann Heinrich Hörschelmann (1704–1774). One of his sons, Ernst August Wilhelm Hoerschelmann (1743–1795), came to Estonia in 1768 , where he became the teacher and principal of what is now the Gustav-Adolf-Gymnasium in Reval . His brother Johann Heinrich Hörschelmann (1752–1798) followed him in 1782 and became a pastor in the parish of Fennern .

A branch founded by Ernst August's son Johann Wilhelm (1779–1831) entered Russian service . Descendants were u. a. the generals Konstantin Ivanowitsch Gerschelman and Sergei Konstantinowitsch Gerschelman .

coat of arms

Hoerschelmann coat of arms variant

The coat of arms is quartered . In the first and fourth fields in silver it shows a red stag , in the second and third fields in blue a golden sheaf placed obliquely to the left . A growing deer on the helmet . The helmet covers are blue and silver.

A Russian variant shows the golden sheaf in red in the second and third fields. The helmet covers are red-silver on the right and red-gold on the left.

Tribe list

Excerpts from the master list

• A Johann Heinrich Hörschelmann (1704–1774), superintendent in Erfurt
  • B1 Friedrich Ludwig Anton Hoerschelmann (1740–1792), lawyer and historian
  • B2 Ernst August Wilhelm Hoerschelmann (1743–1795), teacher and director in Reval
    • C1 Ferdinand Ludwig Hörschelmann (1773–1852), professor at the grammar school, then pastor at St. Matthäi
      • D1 Otto August Leopold Hörschelmann (1800–1874),
        • E1 Ferdinand Dietrich Nicolai Hörschelmann (1833–1902), professor in Dorpat
          • F1 Paul Alexander Robert Hörschelmann (1866-1915)
            • G1 Gotthard Hoerschelmann (1903–1976), pastor and field name researcher
              • H1 Paul-Gerhard Hoerschelmann (1931–)
              • H2 Werner Hoerschelmann (1938–)
        • E2 Alexander Anton Hörschelmann (1836–1885)
        • E3 August Konstantin Hörschelmann (1842–1913)
        • E4 Johannes Eduard Robert Hörschelmann (1845–1926)
      • D2 Aleksander Ferdinand Leopold Hörschelmann (1801–1871)
        • E Eduard Hörschelmann (1833–1883), physician, district doctor
        • E Leopold Hörschelmann (1836–1908), general superintendent
    • C2 Friedrich August Hörschelmann (1774–1850)
      • D1 Heinrich Emil August Hörschelmann (1810–1854), pastor in St. Petersburg
        • E Wilhelm Hoerschelmann (1849–1895), classical philologist, professor in Dorpat
          • F1 Harald Wilhelm Tacitus von Hoerschelmann (1878–1941), physicist and translator
          • F2 Rolf von Hoerschelmann (1885–1947), painter
      • D2 Carl Anton Ferdinand Hörschelmann (1819-1892)
        • E1 Christfried Otto Hörschelmann (1858–1939)
          • F Bruno Hörschelmann (1889–1946)
        • E2 Ferdinand Constantin Ludwig Hörschelmann , pastor in Tbilisi and in the Crimea
      • D3 Otto Friedemann Jakob Hörschelmann (1830–1873)
        • E August Konstantin Hörschelmann (1863–1937)
    • C3 Johann Wilhelm Hörschelmann (1779–1831), progenitor of the Russian line
      • ...
    • C4 Constantin Immanuel Hörschelmann (1780–1848)
      • D Max Hörschelmann (1823–1877)
    • C5 Paul Eduard Hörschelmann (1781–1833)
  • B3 Johann Heinrich Hörschelmann (1752–1798)

• Fred von Hoerschelmann (1901–1976), writer and radio play author

literature

• Cord Aschenbrenner: The Protestant rectory: 300 years of faith, spirit and power: A family story. Siedler, Munich 2015 ISBN 9783641122850
• Bernhard Koerner (Hrg.): Genealogical handbook of middle class families . Volume 14 1908, pp. 187-218; Volume 109, 1940, pp. 149–220 ( Hörschelmann I )
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn
  • Genealogical handbook of noble houses , B 7, volume 36 of the complete series, 1965, pp. 168–170; B 18, Volume 95 of the complete series, 1989, p. 224
  • Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, 1984, pp. 261-262
• Maximilian Gritzner : The nobility of the Russ. Baltic provinces , (= J. Siebmachers's large Wappenbuch , Volume 3, Section 11), Part II of the non-enrolled nobility , Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1901, p. 70 ( digitized in the Göttingen SUB )

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ferdinand Ludwig Hörschelmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ferdinand Constantin Ludwig Hörschelmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital