Jacob von Staehlin

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Jacob von Staehlin-Storcksburg (also: Jakow Jakowlewitsch Stäehlin ; born May 9, 1709 in Memmingen , † June 25, 1785 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a German-Russian state councilor and polymath in the Russian service.

Life

Jacob von Staehlin-Storcksburg was born on May 9, 1709 in Memmingen in Upper Swabia . He was the descendant of an old Memmingen family of mayors and city councilors.

In 1735 he was called to the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and has lived in Russia ever since. In 1737 he became professor of rhetoric at the academy , and from 1742 he was educator of the future Tsar Peter III for three years . , later his librarian . Notwithstanding the seizure of power by Catherine II in 1762, he continued to serve on imperial commissions.

He published historical and geographical research and maintained intensive correspondence all over the world. His title Originalanekdoten Peter the Great , first published in German in Leipzig in 1785, was published again and again and was also translated into Russian a year later. These anecdotes were used by the Russian author Daniil Granin as a template for his book Вечера с Петром Великим (novel 2000; Eng . Peter the Great , 2001), in which Staehlin told anecdotes in a group of 5 men and discussed Russia in the early 21st century. Century can be compared.

Staehlin was married to Elisaveta Ivanovna Reichmuth

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SURNAME Staehlin, Jacob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staehlin-Storcksburg, Jacob von; Stahlin, Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen , Swabia
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1785
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russia