Johann Jakob Baumann
Johann Jakob Baumann (born April 29, 1773 in Herisau ; † October 28, 1830 in Goiás Velho , Province of Goiás , Brazil; resident in Herisau) was a Swiss military in English, Portuguese and later imperial Brazilian services from Appenzell Ausserrhoden .
Life
Johann Jakob Baumann was a son of Hans Jakob Baumann, a farmer, and Anna Maria Baumann nee Mettler. His first wife was a noble Portuguese woman of unknown name. He then married Leonora Cantofer. Johann Jakob Baumann began his military career in 1791 as a lieutenant in one of the two Sardinian battalions of the Glarus-Appenzell Schmid regiment , where he distinguished himself in the defensive battle against the French troops. From 1796 to 1798 he was in English service.
After that he moved to Portugal , where Johann Jakob Baumann initially served as an officer in the Lippe regiment and from 1800 as a captain in the royal bodyguard. With this he followed the royal family into exile in Brazil in 1807, where he was promoted more and more: 1810 to colonel , 1818 to brigadier , 1824 to interim military governor of the province of São Paulo , in 1826 to military governor (Portuguese governador das armas ) of the province of Goiás and later to the rank of general.
It is likely that Johann Jakob Baumann was raised to the nobility by Emperor Peter I of Brazil after 1822. He was the commander of the Portuguese Order of Christ . He died in Goiás Velho.
literature
- Major General JJ von Baumann. [Obituary]. In: Appenzellisches Monatsblatt 5 (May 1836), pp. 78–80. Web access via e-periodica.ch
- R. de Skowronski: Jean-Jacques Baumann. In: Versailles. Revue de la Fondation pour l'histoire des Suisses à l'étranger 62 (1976), pp. 18-22.
- Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. Herisau: Schläpfer 1994, ISBN 3-85882-091-1 , pp. 198-201.
Web links
- Thomas Fuchs: Johann Jakob Baumann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 17, 2004 , accessed April 4, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ "The 'Government Budget of the Canton of Appenzell VR 1819' first publicly named J. Jakob (not J. Konrad, as it is called there) von Baumann, who was in Brazilian service [...]", is in the Nekrolog for Johann Jakob Baumann in the Appenzellisches monthly newspaper 5 (May 1836), p. 79. From Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. Herisau: Schläpfer 1994, p. 199, the above-mentioned excerpt from the Appenzell State Calendar is printed, but not from 1819, but from 1829. Witschi writes ibid., P. 200 f., Without citing the source: “By resolution of January 22, 1826 the meanwhile ennobled ‹Joao Jaob de Baumann› was appointed military governor [...]. "
- ↑ Nita Fleury Curado: Chácara Baumann. In: Cidade de Goiás , Volume 22, No. 721, August 16, 1959 ( digitized , Portuguese).
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SURNAME | Baumann, Johann Jakob |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baumann, Jean-Jacques; Baumann, João Jacomo de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss military in English, Portuguese and Brazilian service |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1773 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Herisau |
DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1830 |
Place of death | Goiás Velho , Goiás Province , Brazil |