Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von Pirch

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Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von Pirch (born May 1, 1799 in Bayreuth , † June 20, 1832 in Breslau ) was a Prussian captain and travel writer .

Otto von Pirch came from the von Pirch soldier family , who had lived in Pomerania for a long time . He was the only son of the Royal Prussian Major General Christoph Wilhelm Rüdiger von Pirch (1767–1846), as well as the grandson of the Royal Prussian General of the Infantry Franz Otto von Pirch (1733–1813) and nephew of Lieutenant General Otto Karl Lorenz von Pirch (1765– 1824), to which all military schools in Prussia were subordinate. After his father was transferred to Pomerania in 1807 during the Fourth Coalition War , Pirch first attended a boarding school in Potsdam and later the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin . In 1815 he decided to pursue a military career. In 1829 he wanted to take part in the Russo-Turkish war , but was refused. He then took a leave of absence for eight months and made a trip to the Balkans and Northern Italy , which he described in a travel report. He later wrote a travelogue about a visit to Warsaw . Pirch died in Breslau in 1832 at the age of 33 as a result of a riding accident.

Works (selection)

  • Journey to Serbia in the late autumn of 1829. 2 volumes, Berlin 1830, volume 1 , volume 2
  • Caragoli. 1st part, Berlin 1832 ( full text )
  • Observations on Caspar Hauser . In: Annals of German and foreign criminal justice . Berlin June 1830

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personal data
SURNAME Pirch, Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirch, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian captain and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1832
Place of death Wroclaw