Ignaz von Striker

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Ignaz von Stürmer in old age, lithograph by F. Lieder (around 1825)

Baron Ignaz Lorenz von Stürmer (born August 21, 1750 or 1752 in Vienna ; † December 1, 1829 there ) was an Austrian diplomat and orientalist .

Life

Origin and family

Ignaz Lorenz von Stürmer was born in Vienna as a scion of a family who immigrated from Franconia . In Constantinople he married Elisabeth (1769–1846) born on November 26, 1786. Testa, a daughter of the Austrian Internuntius Bartholomäus von Testa (1723-1809). The couple had two sons:

Career

At the age of sixteen he joined the order of the Society of Jesus in Vienna and devoted himself to philosophical studies. After the order was abolished in 1773, he studied law before entering the Imperial and Royal Academy for Oriental Languages in 1776 . Until 1780 he took part in the work on the "Lexicon Arabico-Persico-Turcicum" by Franciszek a Mesgnien Meniński, which was published that year.

As a graduate of the academy he entered the foreign service of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1780 and was assigned as an interpreter or dragoman to the Internuntius Peter von Herbert-Rathkeal in Constantinople (today: Istanbul ). In this function he was able to bring the conquest of Belgrade by Gideon Ernst von Laudon and the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Austrian Turkish War to a conclusion in October 1789 .

Appointed to the State Chancellery in 1793 and appointed Hofrat in 1801 , he returned to Constantinople in 1802 as Internuntius and Minister Plenipotentiary . In 1800 Stürmer was raised to the rank of knight and in 1813 to the status of Austrian baron , and was also awarded the Privy Council and the Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Stephen . In 1818 he was recalled to Vienna and in 1819 appointed to the State and Conference Council, Stürmer was entrusted with the management of the department for domestic affairs at the Court and State Chancellery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Striker, Ignaz Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 445 f. (Direct links on p. 445 , p. 446 ).
  2. ^ Schlitter, Hanns:  Stürmer, Ignaz Lorenz Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 49.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Agstner : Austria in Istanbul: K. (below) K. Presence in the Ottoman Empire , LIT, Münster 2010, p. 27 and 106 f. ISBN 3-643-502-303
  4. ^ Marie de Testa, Antoine Gautier: Drogmans et diplomates européens auprès de la porte ottomane , Isis, Istanbul 2003, ISBN 9-754-282-587
  5. ↑ Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (Hungary) 1720–1920 , Böhlau, Vienna 1986, p. 109, ISBN 3-205-07269-3
  6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Vol. 9, Voigt, Weimar 1870, p. 102 f.
predecessor Office successor
Bartholomew of Testa , Gt Austrian Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
June 28, 1802 to March 10. 1818 		Rudolf von Lützow
personal data
SURNAME Striker, Ignaz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Striker, Ignaz Lorenz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1750 or 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1829
Place of death Vienna