Mathias Padrun

Mathias Padrun , Russian Матвей Иванович Падрен-де-Карне Matvei Iwanowitsch Padren-de-Karne (born March 9, 1809 in Sagens ; † July 30, 1891 ibid) was a Swiss teacher and school inspector in southern Russia.

Padrun was born in the canton of Graubünden , but spent 50 years in the Russian Empire. He had a "brilliant career" and made it to general school inspector.

Padrun attended secondary school in Wangen and the Jesuit college in Feldkirch. He studied philology and philosophy in Lausanne and Munich. On the mediation of Johann Peter Mirer , the later Bishop of Chur, he got a teaching position in Kiev . His other stations were the high school in Vilnius, where he taught Latin and Greek. He later taught French and was a supervisor at the 1st and 2nd grammar schools in Kiev. In 1848 he received a professorship at the 3rd Realgymnasium in Moscow, in 1858 he became director of the Aristocratic Institute in Vilnius. In 1866 he received the post of director at the Alexander Gymnasium in Kerch , which he held until 1876, before becoming district inspector of the elementary schools in the educational district of Odessa (including Crimea ) in 1876 . In connection with this post he was allowed to use the title “General”, which is how he was called in Sagogn after his return to his home village in 1880 (“il signur general”). The nobility predicate he chose, “de Carné” or in Russian “de-Karne” or “Korne”, he derived from the part of the village in Sagogn, where he came from. Padrun died in 1891 as a result of an injury during a robbery.

literature

• Roman Bühler: Bündner in the Russian Empire. Pp. 331-332.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Padrun de Carné, Matias Murezi. In: Erik Amburger database. Erik Amburger, accessed November 4, 2018 . 
2. ^ Roman Bühler: Bündner in the Russian Empire. P. 331.