Johann Protasius von Anstett

Johann Protasius von Anstett (* 1766 in Strasbourg ; † May 14, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Russian diplomat.

Life

Anstett, the son of a lawyer in Strasbourg, went to Russia in 1789 after completing his academic studies, first served in the military and then received a position in the College of Foreign Affairs.

After he had been a member of the embassy in Vienna for a long time , in 1812 he became director of the diplomatic chancellery under Field Marshal Prince Michail Illarionowitsch Kutusow , in which position he signed the Kalisch Convention on April 7, 1813 with the Prussian lieutenant general Carl Friedrich Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum completed.

During the Wars of Liberation , he was in the wake of the Russian Emperor Alexander I , brought together with Count Karl Robert von Nesselrode on June 15, 1813 the treatise of Reichenbach and was then Russian plenipotentiary at the Congress in Prague .

After accompanying the Emperor to Paris as a Real Councilor of State , he also attended the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and 1815. After Napoleon's return from Elba , he followed the allied army to Paris and was here on the military committee that, under Wellington's chairmanship, brought about the convention on the occupation army in France on November 20, 1815. Later he was the Russian representative at the German Federal Assembly. In this position he died on May 14, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main.

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