Johann Jakob Baumann

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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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "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 [...]. "
  2. ↑ Nita Fleury Curado: Chácara Baumann. In: Cidade de Goiás , Volume 22, No. 721, August 16, 1959 ( digitized , Portuguese).
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personal data
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