Horn (noble family, 1865)
Horn is the name of a Prussian noble family that was raised to the Prussian nobility on December 28, 1865 .
history
The family line begins with medical and general receptor Ernst Wilhelm Horn (* May 21, 1732, † April 17, 1812). He was the father of the university professor and head of the medical clinic in Berlin Ernst Horn (* August 24, 1774, † September 27, 1848). His sons Wilhelm (February 17, 1803, † January 19, 1871) and Karl (October 26, 1807, † May 18, 1889) were ennobled in 1865 under the name of Horn .
Relatives
- Karl von Horn (1807–1889), Chief President of the Provinces of Posen and East Prussia
- Karl von Horn (1833–1911), district president of the Marienwerder administrative district
coat of arms
In blue three hip horns placed diagonally on top of one another with the mouthpiece turned to the left . On the crowned helmet with blue-silver covers, three ostrich feathers , the middle black, the outer silver, covered across by one of the horns.
literature
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , first year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1907, pp. 322-324
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases and acts of grace from 1600–1873 , Berlin 1874, p. 141.