Johan Fredrik von Nolcken

Johan Fredrik von Nolcken (born December 20, 1737 in Stralsund , † February 22, 1809 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish diplomat and ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in Russia from 1773 to 1788.

origin

His father was the Baron Erich Matthias von Nolcken (1694–1755) originally from Riga , who also worked as a Swedish diplomat at the Tsar's court in Saint Petersburg from 1739 to 1741 , his mother Christina Margaretha was a née von Lode ( 1707-1739). She was a daughter of the Livonian District Administrator and Vice President Gerhard Lode and his second wife Margaretha Elisabeth Horn af Kanckas. An older brother Gustav Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813) also worked as a diplomat in England. He also had two sisters, Hedvig Ulrika von Nolcken (1735–1801) and Vilhelmina Margareta Christina von Nolcken (1734–1790). After the death of his first wife, the father remarried Anna Regina Horn af Åminne (1718–1796), from this marriage two more children were born.

Life

Johan Fredrik von Nolcken became an ensign in the Elfborg Regiment in 1752, where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1761. In 1762 he served as a captain in the Swedish army fleet. In 1768 he became chamberlain to Queen Luise Ulrike .

In 1773 he was sent as envoy extraordinary to the Russian court in Saint Petersburg , where he was received by Catherine II and Grand Duke Paul I on March 15, 1773 . When the Russo-Swedish War broke out in 1788, he returned to Sweden. In the same year he resigned from military service. When the French encyclopaedist and philosopher Denis Diderot stayed in Saint Petersburg at the Tsar's court from October 1773 to March 1774, he also met regularly with von Nolcken, who wanted to persuade him to return via Stockholm.

In 1791 he went to the Imperial Court in Vienna as an extraordinary envoy and was recalled in 1794.

Johan Fredrik von Nolcken died in 1809 without an heir and was buried in a family grave in the church of Rö in Uppland .

Since 1776 he was married to Johanna Margareta von Manteuffel († 1821), a daughter of the Russian general Count von Manteuffel from the Falkhoff family in Livonia . The two daughters and one son died before the father.

Honors

In 1770 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Sword and in 1772 of the Order of St. John . Since 1777 he was in command of the North Star Order .

literature

• Stewart P. Oakley: War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790. Routledge 1993, ISBN 0-415-51317-0 .
• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns Ättar-Taflor. Verlag PA Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, 1862, vol. 3, p. 38, Google books (Swedish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nolcken, Erik Mattias from . In: John Rosén, Theodor Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 11 : Military Convention - Nådaval . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1887, Sp. 1187 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).