Karl Alexander von Wistinghausen

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Karl Alexander von Wistinghausen (born May 27, 1826 at Leal Castle in Lihula ; † September 10, 1883 in Reval ) was a German-Baltic nobleman , doctor , administrative officer and Russian chamberlain .

Career

Karl Alexander attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval from 1836 to 1843 . In the years 1844-1850 and 1851 he was a medical student at the Imperial University of Dorpat and received his doctorate in medicine . In Saint Petersburg he took on a non-budgetary position as ordinator at the Marien-Magdalenen Hospital. Between 1853 and 1862 he practiced as a doctor in a St. Petersburg hospital and also worked as a pediatrician . In 1860 he and his descendants received the Estonian indigenous community . In 1859 he became a co-founder of the Association of Doctors in Saint Petersburg. On recommendation, he moved to the administration in Estonia, where in 1862 he became director of the Estonian governor's excise administration (financial administration). From 1867 to 1877 and from 1880 to 1883 he was President of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and repeatedly represented the Governor . He was a co-founder and president of the Estonian Department of the Russian Society of the Estonian Red Cross and was appointed Real Council of State in 1872. In 1879 he was appointed chamberlain at the Russian court. In 1880 he took over the post of director of the Estonian Governorate Prison Committee. In 1882 he became a member of the Kachanov Commission and became secretary of the Association for the Correction of Women in Prisoners. In addition, he was the managing director of the Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People, Board Member and General Practitioner at the Reval Rescue House. In 1883 he was the initiator of the establishment of the Estonian Institute for the Education of Blind Children. In 1880 he was President of the Festival Committee of the 3rd Estonian Song Festival in Reval .

For his services he was awarded the Russian Vladimir Orden and the Stanislaus excellent. Saint vladimir (gang) .png POL Krzyz Wielki Orderu Sw Stanislawa BAR.png

Origin and family

Karl Alexander came from the Baltic noble family von Wistinghausen , who had lived in Reval since the middle of the 17th century. His father was the collegiate councilor Christian von Wistinghausen (1783-1835), lord of Leal Castle , who was married to Johanna (Jenny) Rodde (1800-1837). In 1852 Karl Alexander married Marie Caroline Rodde (1828–1866) in their first marriage and Adelheid Countess Stenbock (1849–1922) in their second marriage . Her descendants were:

  • 1st marriage: Marie Caroline (Mary) von Wistinghausen (* 1860 in Saint Petersburg) ∞ Hermann Hemkes (* in the Netherlands; † 1889 in Johannesburg )
  • 1st marriage: Reinhold Karl Alexander von Wistinghausen, Dr. med. (* 1863 in Reval; † 1939 in Berlin ) ∞ Dagmar Hedvig von Ramm (* 1865 in Hohenheim)
  • 2nd marriage: Richard Magnus von Wistinghausen (* 1872 in Reval; † 1915 in Dresden , composer and conductor ) ∞ Wanda Caecilia von Ghulaw (* 1877 in Lemberg )
  • 2nd marriage: Erika Lucie von Wistinghausen (* 1877) ∞ Georg August von Wendrich († 1924)
  • 2nd marriage: Theophile Magda Eugenie von Wistinghausen (* 1873 in Reval; † 1944 in Bad Schachen by suicide) ∞ Eduard Michael von Bodisco (* 1863 in Kassari ; † 1940 in Berlin)
  • 2nd marriage: Walter Siegfried von Wistinghausen (1879–1956), journalist and editor ∞ Louise Helene von Ungern-Sternberg (* 1882 in Leetz)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The St. Mary Magdalene Hospital in St. Petersburg was under the protection of the Tsarina. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Reden: Das Kaiserreich Russia: statistical-historical representation of its cultural relations, namely in agricultural, industrial and commercial relation . Verlag Mittler, 1843, p. 554 books.google.de
  2. ↑ Kameralhof was the authority that administered the governorship's crown income. Kameralhof . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 6 , issue 5 (edited by Hans Blesken, Siegfried Reicke ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1965, OCLC 832566941 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Wistinghausen, Karl Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic medic and Russian chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Lihula
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1883
Place of death Reval