Leo von Kügelgen

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Leo von Kügelgen (born February 10, 1880 in Čupahovka, Charkow Governorate , Russia; † January 26, 1931 in Reval , Estonia ) was a Baltic German doctor and art historian .

Leo von Kügelgen was the son of the farmer Karl von Kügelgen (1837–1911) and his wife Anna, b. Bormann, from St. Petersburg. He attended St. Anne's School in St. Petersburg . He then studied medicine in Dorpat , Basel, Berlin, Bern and Göttingen from 1901 to 1905 , and in 1908 he was awarded a doctorate in Göttingen. med. doctorate and passed the state examination in Dorpat in 1909. From 1909 to 1914 he worked as a doctor at the insane asylum in Seewald near Reval, and in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a Russian military doctor. From 1918 he worked again as a doctor at the institution in Seewald and as a freelance doctor in Reval.

He dealt with art history and was director of the art section of the Estonian Literary Society . He wrote articles on art history for the Revaler Bote , the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present (1926–1931) and the concise dictionary for border and foreign Germanism (1933–1938).

Publications (selection)

  • On the genesis of traumatic epithelial cysts (experimental study) . Dissertation Göttingen 1908.
  • Catalog of the art exhibition from Reval private collection . 1918, Bruckmann, Munich 1918 ( digitized version ).
  • Baltic artists (Estonia and Livonia) . In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte 4, 1923, 1, pp. 29–32.
  • Gerhard von Kügelgen. A painter's life around 1800 and the other seven artists in the family . Belser, Stuttgart 1924.

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SURNAME Kügelgen, Leo von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German doctor and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Čupahovka, Kharkov Governorate , Russia
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1931
Place of death Reval , Estonia