Jakob Johann von Igelström

Coat of arms of the Counts of Igelström

Count Jakob Johann von Igelström (born July 19, 1735 in Kerrafer , † February 14, 1804 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Swedish-Baltic baron and chamberlain , whose family was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1792 .

history

The landlord of the Livonian estates Ülzen (since 1773), Pölcks (1786–1794) and Schwanenburg (since 1797) campaigned for the farmers of his lands from 1802 for limited freedom and leasehold land . In the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was Roman imperial vice chamberlain and chamberlain at the imperial Russian court.

Origin and family

Jakob Johann v. I. came from the Swedish noble family von Igelström , who had lived there since around 1600 . His father was the country marshal Gustav Heinrich von Igelström (1695–1771), who was married to Margarethe von Albedyll . His brother was the Imperial Russian Infantry General Otto Heinrich von Igelström (1737-1823). Jakob Johann married Sophie Elisabeth von Lieven (* 1756 in Mitau , † 1793 in Leipzig ) in 1773 .

Gustav Otto Andreas von Igelström

Her son was Gustav Otto Andreas Graf von Igelström (* 1777, † 1801 in Leipzig), who served as a major in the Imperial Russian Army and died unmarried in Leipzig in 1801. He was a writer and wrote, among other things, the work " On the Influence of the Study of Natural History on State Knowledge and Civic Happiness ". A longtime companion and teacher was Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810).

literature

Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses : 1843, Verlag Perthes, 1843, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , digitized 14 Nov. 2011, pp. 642–643 [4]
Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard Napiersky , General writers and learned lexicon of the provinces of Livonia , Volume 2, Verlag JF Steffenhagen und sohn., 1829, original from Princeton University, digitized May 20, 2008, Graf von Igelström (Gustav Otto Andreas ) and Freyherr von Igelström (Harald Gustav). Pp. 391–393 [5]

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Jakob Johann von Igelström. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Neu-Schwanenburg. In: Lost Places & Unlost Places Baltic States, Livonia (Latvia, Estonia) M - Q [1]
↑ compare: Outline of a history of botany in relation to Russia , Verlag Dr. der kais. Academie, 1837, original from Austrian National Library , digitized Jan. 3, 2012, p. 127 [2]
↑ Dirk Sangmeister, Seume and some of his contemporaries, contributions to the life and work of a headstrong late enlightener , On the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810), Erfurt and Waltershausen Ulenspiegel Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-932655-39-5 [3]

personal data
SURNAME	Igelström, Jakob Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish-Baltic baron and chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kerrafer
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1804
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Neu-Schwanenburg. In: Lost Places & Unlost Places Baltic States, Livonia (Latvia, Estonia) M - Q [1]

[2] re: Outline of a history of botany in relation to Russia , Verlag Dr. der kais. Academie, 1837, original from Austrian National Library , digitized Jan. 3, 2012, p. 127 [2]

[3] Dirk Sangmeister, Seume and some of his contemporaries, contributions to the life and work of a headstrong late enlightener , On the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810), Erfurt and Waltershausen Ulenspiegel Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-932655-39-5 [3]