Kotzebue (noble family)
Kotzebue is the name of a German-Baltic and Russian noble family that comes from Kossebau near Arendsee in the Altmark .
history
The family first appeared in 1420 with Henning Kossebu zu Stendal and Arnd Cassebu (1420–1454), councilor of the Neustadt Salzwedel. The secure regular series begins with Jacob Kotzebue (1527-1597), Council Treasurer in Magdeburg.
The family flourished especially in the Baltic States , where August Kotzebue was raised to the hereditary Russian nobility in 1785 . His assassination in 1819 resulted in the Karlovy Vary resolutions . August von Kotzebue's descendants were raised to the rank of count in 1874 and incorporated into the register of nobility in Bavaria on January 17, 1906 (for the painter Wilhelm von Kotzebue ).
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) blue roses in silver. A capuchin in habit can be seen on the helmet with its blue and silver blankets , wielding a three-strand scourge in his right hand , and his left over his heart.
people
- Jakob Kotzebue (1527–1597), councilor and chamberlain in Magdeburg
- Lic. Theol. Johann Kotzebue (1591–1629), his son, pastor in Magdeburg (St. Jacobi), pastor and rector in Quedlinburg
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Johann Kotzebue (1616–1677), his son, as Johann X. Abbot of Loccum Monastery
- Johann Wilhelm Kotzebue (around 1666 - 1730?), Abbot of the Bursfelde Monastery around 1700 to 1730
- Georg Carl Kotzebue (1668–1730), Johann's youngest son, chief magistrate in the west
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Jakob Franz Kotzebue (1621–1685), royal Swedish personal physician
- Christian Ludwig Kotzebue (1661–1706), his son, Electoral Hanoverian court doctor and personal physician, historian and genealogist
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Johann Kotzebue (1616–1677), his son, as Johann X. Abbot of Loccum Monastery
- Lic. Theol. Johann Kotzebue (1591–1629), his son, pastor in Magdeburg (St. Jacobi), pastor and rector in Quedlinburg
- Karoline Ludecus b. Johanne Karoline Amalie Kotzebue (1757–1844), sister of August, writer with the pseudonym Amalie Berg
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August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), German writer and playwright
- Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), son of August, Baltic German explorer and officer in the Russian Navy
- Moritz von Kotzebue (1789–1861), son of August, German Baltic Lieutenant General in Russian service
- Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (1801–1884), son of August, Baltic German Russian general in the Crimean War, 1874–80 Governor General of Warsaw in the Weichselland
- Karl von Kotzebue (1805–96), son of August
- Ernst von Kotzebue (1838–1914), son of Karl, Russian diplomat (envoy to the USA 1895–97)
- Wilhelm von Kotzebue (diplomat) (1813–1887), son of August, Baltic German diplomat and writer
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Alexander von Kotzebue (1815–1889), son of August, German-Russian battle painter born in East Prussia
- Wilhelm von Kotzebue (painter) (1864–1952), son of Alexander, German painter
- Otto von Kotzebue (painter) (* 1936), great-grandson of Alexander, bricklayer, architect, painter
Individual evidence
literature
- Julius Graf v. Oeynhausen : The von Kotzebue family in quarterly for heraldry , sphragistics and genealogy , Berlin.
- Paul Nitzschke: August von Kotzebue and Friedrich Nietzsche , in archive for heritage and heraldry 1911.
- Ancestry line of Kotzebue , in line of ancestors from all German districts, 1926.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408
- Entry of the Kotzebue family in the New German Biography (1979)
