Leopold Neumann (from Baehr)

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Johann Leopold Neumann (from 1829 von Baehr ; born March 6, 1793 in Ragnit ; † March 24, 1893 ibid) was a German engineer - geographer .

Life

He was the son of the master carpenter Johann Christian Neumann from Ragnit and Beatrix nee. Steckel. During his service in the Prussian military, during the Napoleonic Wars , Neumann acquired the title of Lieutenant Engineer. On January 6, 1819, he married the much older, noble Albertine Elisabeth Countess of Solms-Sonnenwalde (1775-1827). As a result, the couple lived mainly on their property, the Schköna manor . Professionally, Neumann developed into an important employee at the conversation lexicon of Brockhaus ( Leipzig ). For his services as an engineer-geographer, he was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . After the death of his wife in 1827, before all of her siblings had died, Neumann was widowed Countess zu Solms-Sonnenwalde by his mother-in-law Louise, a morganatic daughter of Prince Viktor II. Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg , who with her mother in the name Baehr had been ennobled, adopted. This took place on September 12, 1829 by royal Prussian decree, which also included the elevation to the nobility; This, however, on the birth name of the countess, i.e. von Baehr (Baer) and thus also with her coat of arms. In the same year as his mother-in-law died, in 1830, von Baehr married Johanna Agnes Wilhelmina von Schlegel († 1871). The couple had five children including:

  • Elisabeth (born March 4, 1834)
  • Karl Gustav Viktor (born January 28, 1836 - † November 4, 1878)
⚭ 1867 Louise Siewert (* December 18, 1840; † December 14, 1868)
⚭ 1872 Maria Alexandra Siewert (born June 1, 1853), sister of Luise, married Georg von Wedelstädt in 1880
  • Elisabeth (* March 12, 1839) ⚭ NN Siewert

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, Volume 7, 1913, p. 22 .
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Neumann (eadelt: von Baer), Johann Leopold", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 72.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper: independent magazine for the German armed forces 1872, p. 307 wedding announcement
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann von Baehr, Johann Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer-geographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Ragnite
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1893
Place of death Ragnite