Nikolaus Flugi from Aspermont
Nikolaus Flugi von Aspermont (born November 6, 1773 in St. Moritz , † 1856 in Avellino ) was a Swiss officer in the service of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies .
Life
Nikolaus Flugi came from a noble family in Graubünden and was a son of the Bundestag member Konstantin Flugi von Aspermont (1731 to 1809) and a brother of Konradin Flugi von Aspermont (1787 to 1874), who played an important role in the development of St. Moritz Kurort played. He initially served as a mercenary in a Graubünden regiment in Turin .
With the dissolution of the regiment in 1798, he left the service of the King of Sardinia-Piedmont as an aide major and became a Swiss citizen ( Canton of Rhaetia ) in February 1799 . He took part in the Napoleonic campaigns and several battles and entered the service of the King of Naples and Sicily in 1815. In 1822 he became a regimental colonel and in 1831 military commander in Abruzzo . In 1849 he became lieutenant general and was last royal Neapolitan marshal in Avellino in Campania , where he died in 1856. He was a knight of several orders.
literature
- Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Volume 3: Eglof – Güttingen, p. 184
- Adolf Collenberg: Flugi, Nicolaus (d'Aspermont). In: Lexicon Istoric Retic (LIR). Retrieved March 6, 2017 (Romansh).
Web links
- Flugi von Aspermont, Nikolaus , index entry: German biography. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flugi von Aspermont, Nikolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aspermont, Nikolaus Flugi from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss officer and mercenary, Neapolitan marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Moritz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1856 |
| Place of death | Avellino |