Johann Clapier de Colongue
Johann de Clapier Colongue ( Russian Иван (Иоганн) Александрович Деколонг (Клапье-де-Колонг) ; born 2 November . Jul / 13. November 1719 greg. , † February 4 jul. / 15. February 1789 greg. In Ontika ) was a Russian lieutenant general and governor general of Siberia .
Life
Origin and family
Johann was a member of the Baltic noble family Clapier de Colongue . He was the fourth son of Alexander Clapier de Colongue (1685-1743) and his wife Anna Sophie, née von Caden († 1741). His father was a French captain and came to Russia in 1712. There he rose in the tsarist army to lieutenant general of engineers and was knight of the Alexander Nevsky Order . The Prussian infantry general Jakob von Colong (1724-1806) was his brother. Like him, Johann remained unmarried.
Military career
Colongue began his officer career in the Imperial Russian Army in 1733 with the Engineer Corps . In 1738 he became an ensign and took part in the Turkish War. He fought in the Battle of Stavutschan and was involved in the conquest of Chotyn and Jassy . After that he found employment as a military engineer in various fortresses. Before the outbreak of the Seven Years' War he was with the General Staff . During the war he was promoted to engineer captain in 1755 , colonel and commander of the Nevsky infantry regiment in 1759 and major general in 1763 . He had at the Battle of Egersdorf, 1758, among others, 1757 Battle of anger village and in 1761 the conquest of Berlin participated.
He was assigned to the Siberian Corps and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1771. In the suppression of the Pugachev uprising , he played a prominent role. On June 28, 1777 Colongue received his farewell and retired to his estate Ontika, which he had made a majorate in 1783 .
literature
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , part 2, 3: Estonia, volume 3, Görlitz 1930, p. 62
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Clapier de Colongue. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Johann Clapier de Colongue in the German biography
- Иван Деколонг In: Русский биографический словарь , Volume 6, St. Petersburg 1905, pp. 175–176 (Russian)
- Entry in the Erik Amburger database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clapier de Colongue, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Деколонг, Иван Александрович (Russian); Клапье-де-Колонг, Иоганн Aлександрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Lieutenant General and Governor General of Siberia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1719 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1789 |
| Place of death | Ontika |