Johann Peter Eduard von Löwenstern
Baron Johann Peter Eduard von Löwenstern , Russian Иван Иванович (Иван-Эдуард Германович) фон Левенштерн , Ivan Ivanovich of Löwenstern (* 28. March 1790 in Rasik , Governorate of Estonia ; † 5. November 1837 in Astrakhan ) was a Baltic German landlords and Officer in Russian service.
Life
Eduard came from the noble family of the Barons von Löwenstern , he was the youngest son of ten children of the German Baltic entrepreneur and landowner Baron Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern and his wife Hedwig, née Staël von Holstein . Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern and Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern were his older brothers.
He entered the Russian service as a hussar officer and was adjutant to the general of the cavalry Count Peter von der Pahlen from 1809 to 1816 . On April 5, 1815 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite . From 1816 he served in a Belarusian hussar regiment and was promoted to colonel in 1828. From 1826 to 1832, Baron Löwenstein was the commander of the Mitau Hussar Regiment. In 1832 he was promoted to major general , combined with his appointment as commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Hussar Division. From 1833 to 1836 he was military chief in the 1st district of Vitebsk governorate and in 1837 hetman of the Astrakhan Cossack army .
He owned the Allafer estate in Estonia. Since 1826 he was married to Katharina Gamalej (1807–1887), a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Gamalej and his wife Juliana, nee. of food . The couple had three daughters who reached adulthood. Another daughter and son died very young.
Awards
- April 5, 1815: Pour le Mérite
- December 18, 1830: Russian Order of St. George 4th class (for 25 years of service)
Fonts
- With Count Pahlen's cavalry against Napoleon. Mittler, Berlin 1910, reprint Hamburg 1999. English translation: With Count Pahlen's Cavalry Against Napoleon. Memoirs of the Russian General Eduard von Löwenstern 1790–1837. Translated by Victoria Joan Moessner, PhD with Stephen Summerfield, PhD. Ken Trotman Publishing, Huntingdon 2010, ISBN 978-1-907417-06-1 .
literature
- Georg Baron von Wrangell: Eduard von Löwenstern and the Decembrists, Brothers Murawjew-Apostol. In: Baltic Monthly Bulletin 72 (1911), pp. 192–205. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Peter Eduard von Löwenstern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 125 ( digitized version )
- ^ Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite 1740-1918. Biblio 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2503-0 , p. 372, no. 4213.
- ↑ No. 4433 of the list of knights.
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| SURNAME | Löwenstern, Johann Peter Eduard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwenstern, Eduard von; Левенштерн, Иван Иванович фон (Russian); Lion's Star, Iwan Iwanowitsch von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic landowner and officer in the Russian service, most recently as major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rasik |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1837 |
| Place of death | Astrakhan |