Jakob von Eggers

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Jakob von Eggers

Jakob Freiherr von Eggers (born December 25, 1704 in Dorpat , † January 12, 1773 in Danzig ) was a general .

Life

After the Russian conquest of Dorpat in 1708, he and his mother were taken prisoner of war in Arkhangelsk . Here and in a few other cities he grew up and took part in the lessons of Swedish officers prisoner of war. Liberated in 1722, he entered the Swedish military service and devoted himself particularly to fortification .

In 1728 he made a trip to France , served in Danzig in the army of Stanislaus I. Leszczyński during the War of the Polish Succession in 1733/35 , fortified the Hesse-Kassel fortress of Rheinfels in 1735 and transferred to Saxon services as a captain in 1737 .

After traveling extensively in southern Europe, he accompanied the Saxon Army to Bohemia in 1741 , but returned to Sweden in 1743 and took part in the war against Russia as Quartermaster General. Re-employed in the Electoral Saxon army since 1744, he participated in the Second Silesian War and in 1747 attended the French siege of Bergen op Zoom as a volunteer .

He then taught the Saxon princes Xaver and Karl in war sciences and wrote a "New War, Engineering, Artillery, Sea and Fleet Lexicon" (Dresden 1757, 2 volumes). Colonel since 1749 and elevated to the nobility by the King of Sweden , he was appointed Vice-Commander of Königstein Fortress in 1756 and General and Commander of Danzig in 1758. Here he died on January 12, 1773. Daniel Gralath the Younger wrote an “honorary commemoration of Major General v. Eggers ”, Danzig 1773.

Fonts

  • Journal du siège de Bergopzoom. Leipzig 1750.
  • New war, engineering, artillery, sea and naval lexicon. Dresden 1757. ( digitized version )

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