Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Luce

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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig v. Luce

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Luce , from 1795 from Luce , Estonian: Johann Willem Luddi Ludse (born August 25, 1756 in Hasselfelde , Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , † May 23, 1842 in Arensburg on Oesel , Livonia , today Estonia ) was a German clergyman , Physician , writer and local researcher of the island of Oesel as well as numismatist . He also described various plants, his botanical author abbreviation is Luce or Lucé .

Life

Luce came to the cathedral school in Halberstadt in 1769 , where, at the request of his parents, but against his own inclinations, he was supposed to prepare for the later study of theology . From 1774 he studied theology at the University of Göttingen , from 1776 to 1777 then at the University of Helmstedt . In 1781 he took up a position as a private tutor on the Estonian island of Oesel, but was given a pastor's position in Püha in 1783 .

Luce did not particularly like being a clergyman, however, and he suffered from depression . As early as 1785, he gave up the pastor's position and withdrew to his manor Lahhentagge (Estonian: Lahetaguse ) on Oesel to manage it full-time. During these years he published several volumes of poetry. Soon after the death of his first wife (1788), he returned to Germany in 1789 and studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Erfurt until 1792 . He graduated as Dr. med. from. He then returned to Livonia (Estonia) via Saint Petersburg , where he had to take a special medical exam.

There he carried out various activities, including a. also as a doctor. He is the founder of the Oesel country hospital. On March 8, 1795, he was raised to the imperial nobility in Vienna and received the indigenous status of the Oesel knighthood . After all, from 1804 to 1820 he was school inspector (school councilor) of the Arensburg school district.

As an Estophile, Luce founded the "Estonian Literary Society" in Arensburg in 1817 as the first Estonian society to promote the Estonian language (see also Literary Society and Estonian Literary Society ). He was also the 48th member of the foundation of the “Society for History and Archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces”. Luce was a coin collector and in 1839 donated parts of his collection to the “ Estonian learned society ”. He was a member of the "Imperial Pharmaceutical Society" in St. Petersburg and the "Imperial Free Economic Society" there as well as a corresponding member of the "Imperial Philanthropic Society". He was also Vice President of the Arensburg Department of the Russian Bible Society .

Luce was the author of numerous economic, medical and historical articles in German and Estonian , in which he a. a. campaigned for the abolition of serfdom in the Baltic States . He published his works in the monthly magazine for spirit and heart . Of his works in Estonian, the most important are the stories, for the benefit and joy of the people, prepared by the school councilor Johann Willem Ludse .

family

Luce married her first marriage on August 17, 1784 at Gut Sandel Johanna Luise von Vietinghoff (* October 11, 1765, † August 27, 1788), the daughter of the landowner Reinhold Johann von Vietinghoff († 1777), landlord on Sandel, and the Sophie Euphrosine von Aderkas (from the Peude house ); from this first marriage came son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Luce (1785–1866). In his second marriage, he married on December 10, 1793 on Gut Peude Auguste Christine von Aderkas (born June 18, 1772 on Gut Peude; † October 31, 1817 in Arensburg), daughter of the landowner Gotthard Wilhelm von Aderkas († 1813), landlord Peude, and Charlotte Auguste von Güldenstubbe (from the Murratz family ) and sister of Gotthard Emanuel von Aderkas ; from this marriage came son Friedrich Gotthard von Luce (1798-1881).

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  1. ↑ Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany. Volume 2: G - L. Manz, Regensburg 1863, p. 384 .
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft (1935) , page 541. The dates September 5, 1756 and June 4, 1842 alternatively given in the literature correspond to the Russian calendar ( Julian calendar ).
  3. ↑ Biography, bibliography and catalog raisonné, compiled by the University of Potsdam ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). - In various literature 1750 is also given as the year of birth. Since this would mean that Luce did not start his studies in Göttingen when he was 18, but only when he was 24 - which is unlikely to be assumed - this indication of the year of birth is most likely a handwritten misinterpretation written year of birth.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 166, ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Nobility Lexicon. Volume 8: Loe - Mes (= Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 113). CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 , p. 79. - Coat of arms: Within the golden edge of the shield, in blue, a shining golden sun that is reflected in the wavy silver base of the shield . On the helmet with blue-gold covers an open flight , gold on the right, blue on the left , each covered with a black sloping bar , inside a silver pilgrim's shell .
  6. ↑ Jörg Hackmann : From the "Learned Estonian Society" to "Õpetatud Eesti Selts". Association and nation in Estonia. In: Norbert Angermann , Michael Garleff , Wilhelm Lenz (eds.): Baltic provinces, Baltic states and the national. Festschrift for Gert von Pistohlkors on his 70th birthday (= writings of the Baltic Historical Commission. 14). LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9086-4 , pp. 185-211, here p. 188, ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Jaan Undusk : Addressee and Language in the German Baltic Literature Area. In: Ulrich Obst, Gerhard Ressel (Ed.): Balten - Slaven - Deutsche. Aspects and perspectives of cultural contacts. Festschrift for Friedrich Scholz on the occasion of his 70th birthday (= publications of the Slavic-Baltic Seminar of the University of Münster. 1). LIT, Münster et al. 1999, ISBN 3-89473-726-3 , pp. 347-361, here p. 353, ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Communications from the area of ​​the history of Liv, Ehst and Courland. Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1837 (1840), ZDB -ID 515533-2 , p. 21, no. 48, ( digitized ).
  9. ↑ Ivar Leimus : Some contributions to the formation history of Münzfundes from Vaida. In: Bernd Kluge , Bernhard Weisser (Ed.): XII. International Numismatic Congress. Berlin 1997. Files - Proceedings - Actes. Volume 2. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2373-X , pp. 923-928, here p. 926.
  10. ↑ Henno Jänes: History of Estonian literature (= . Stockholm Studies in History of Literature 8, ISSN  0491-0869 ). Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1965, p. 26.
  11. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Oesel Knighthood (1935), page 541 .
  12. ↑ biography (Estonian)
personal data
SURNAME Luce, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludse, Johann Willem Luddi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, doctor and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasselfelde , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1842
Place of death Arensburg on the island of Ösel, Livonia, today Estonia