Joseph Otto Albert von Wolff

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Joseph Otto Albert Freiherr von Wolff (* July 4, 1789 in Neu-Laitzen in Livonia ; † December 28, 1870 there ) was a hydraulic engineer and a Livonian landowner.

Life

Joseph Otto Albert von Wolff went to Gotha to study hydraulics and switched to Heidelberg University in 1808, where he became a member of the Corps Curonia in 1809 . In 1810 he went to Düsseldorf to work practically with hydraulic engineering. He then went on study trips to Holland, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, before returning to Livonia in 1811. In 1812 he entered the service of the hydraulic engineering department in Saint Petersburg as a prime lieutenant. In 1816 he was promoted to captain. In 1818 he took his leave as an engineer major in order to devote himself to the management of his family's estates and later his own estates, to the Neu-Laitzen with Reppekaln and Luxenhof, Lubahn, Meiran, Druween, Neu-Rosen, Ilsen, Alswig, Kragenhof, Noetkenshof and Rehsack belonged. Through extensive drainage work, he made large, previously unmanageable areas of land arable and thereby earned special services to Livonian agriculture. He was the church leader of Oppekaln and a co-founder of the parish of Lubahn.

Awards

For his services to Livonian agriculture, the Livonian Charitable and Economic Society appointed him an honorary member in 1851 .

family

Joseph Otto Albert Freiherr von Wolff came from a council family from Sagan , which emigrated to the Baltic States in the 17th century and received the indigenous Livonian in 1726 and that of the Estonian knighthood in 1729. In 1747 he was raised to the status of imperial baron . He was the son of Johann Gottlieb von Wolff (1756-1817) and Marie Clementine de Fallois de Feoville (1759-1821). Ernst Christoph Alexander von Wolff (1783–1832) was his brother. He married on August 15, 1818 in Dorpat Emilie Guillemot de Villebois ad H. Kurrista.

literature

  • Nicolas Freiherr von Wolff: The imperial barons von Wolff in Livonia 1670–1920 , 1st edition, K. Mattiesens Buchdruckerei Ant.-Ges., Tartu 1936

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists, 1910, 111 , 18
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume A XIII, Pages 534, 5345 (Ahnenzeile v. Platen), CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1975

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Joseph Otto Albert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hydraulic engineer and Livonian landowner
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Neu – Laitzen, Livonia
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1870
Place of death Neu – Laitzen, Livonia