Magnus of Essen

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Magnus of Essen

Heinrich Magnus Wilhelm von Essen ( Russian Максим Максимович Эссен ; * 16 September July / 27 September  1796 greg. In Malla; † 14 September July / 26 September  1869 greg. In Borckholm ) was a Russian civil governor of Livonia .

Life

Origin and family

Magnus was a member of the Estonian von Essen family, which was nobilized to the Swedish nobility in 1643 .

His parents were the Russian civil governor of Estonia, Otto Wilhelm von Essen (1761-1834), and Gertrude Margarethe Staël von Holstein (1764-1828).

He married Elise Guillemot de Villebois from the house of Kurrista (1805-1891) in 1823 . The marriage resulted in a daughter Stephanie (1834–1910), who married Otto von Rennenkampf († 1881) in 1858 and gave him her father's inheritance .

Career

Magnus von Essen initially rose on horseback in the Imperial Russian Army up to Rittmeister of the Guard. He was a hook judge , and from 1845 to 1847 Estonian knighthood captain . From 1847 to 1862 he was the civil governor of Livonia. He was also a privy councilor and chamberlain .

Von Essen was a lien owner (since 1835), and finally owner of Borkholm Castle and the Estonian estates of Sall, Tammik and Moisama.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (Beab.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Volume 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 77.
  2. ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (Beab.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Volume 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 366.
  3. ↑ Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical Manual of the Livonian Knighthood , Volume 2, Görlitz [approx. 1935], p. 809.
personal data
SURNAME Food, Magnus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Essen, Heinrich Magnus Wilhelm von (full name); Эссен, Максим Максимович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian civil governor of Livonia
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Malla
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1869
Place of death Borckholm