Lesedow (noble family)
Lesedow , also Lesedown is the name of an Estonian noble family , presumably of Scottish descent.
history
Karl von Lesedow (1810-1892)
The sex of the von Lesedow intended for religious persecution against Germany in the Baltic countries have immigrated, where the family from the mid-18th century, first in Estonia and Livonia , eventually Russia appears. Relatives could also excel in Prussian service.
Relatives
- Johann Woldemar von Lesedow (1760–1832), Prussian major and heir to Münkenhof , Kullina and Arknal in Estonia
- Wilhelmine (Minna) von Lesedow (1798–1874) ⚭ Karl von Morgenstern (1770–1852), with the later Russian State Councilor and professor of aesthetics, eloquence and classical philology at the University of Dorpat
- Jakob Alexander von Lesedow (1806–1882), heir to Arknal
- Alexander von Lesedow (1839–), chief forester in Arkhangelsk
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Karl von Lesedow (1810-1892), Russian division doctor and real councilor
- Karl Nikolai von Lesedow (1852–1927), Russian lieutenant general , chief of the artillery of the XV. Army Corps
- Eugen von Lesedow (1854–1918), mountain engineer, head of the
- Heinrich Ferdinand von Lesedow (1802–1879), theologian and titular counselor
- Wilhelm von Lesedow (1814–1857), lawyer and farmer
literature
- Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods , Görlitz 1930, pp. 258–261 .