Otto von Ewers

Otto Roderich von Ewers (* December 28, 1811 ^July / 9 January  1812 ^greg. In Dorpat ; † 18 May ^July / 30 May  1873 ^greg. In Vichy ) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

Otto Roderich was a son of the historian and rector of the University Dorpat Gustav von Ewers (1781–1830) and Dorothea, geb. by Maydell (1790–1864). He married Maria Angelica, born in St. Petersburg in 1858 . Fioravanti, widowed Fuhrmann and Labienski. This marriage remained childless.

He first attended the Assmuss-Dittler School in his hometown and from 1824 to 1829 the grammar school there . From 1829 to 1832 he studied law and camera studies in Dorpat . This was followed by studies in Geneva and Berlin from 1832 to 1833 . After completing his training, he worked from 1835 to 1846 as a secretary in the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg. After he became the first secretary of the legation , he was sent as such to Copenhagen from 1846 to 1850 and to Rio de Janeiro from 1850 to 1854 . From 1854 to 1857 he was charge d'affaires in Rio de Janeiro. Ewers became a real councilor of state in 1857 and was ministerial advisor in St. Petersburg from 1857 to 1863 and 1863 to 1871. He was also president of the support fund for the Evangelical Lutheran community from 1867 to 1871 . As a privy councilor , he retired in 1871 and ended his old age first in Dorpat, but then due to illness in France .

After his father's hereditary ennoblement , Otto von Ewers was enrolled in the Livonian Knighthood as early as 1860 and had owned the Livonian Hohensee estate since 1863 .

literature

• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2017, Vol. 7, pp. 170–171.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Otto von Ewers. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital