Peter Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden

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Peter Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (born March 11, 1787 in Magnusdahl on Muhu ; † June 14, 1841 in Kuiwast ), Lord of Kuiwast and Ropaka on Ösel , was a German-Baltic nobleman . He was a state politician on the Estonian island of Ösel and in this position District Administrator and Land Marshal von Ösel.

Origin and family

Peter Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden came from the long-established German-Baltic noble family of the von Buxhoeveden , which had been settled in Livonia since the beginning of the 14th century . His father was the Electoral Saxon Legation Councilor and District Administrator Matthias Christoph von Buxhoeveden (1554–1814), who was married to Wilhelmine von Ekesparre (1757–1813). His father's younger brother was General Friedrich Wilhelm Graf Buxhoevede (1750-1811). Peter Wilhelm married Juliane Louise Amalie von Rummel (1792–1847) in 1807, with whom he had five daughters and four sons, two of whom died at an early age:

  • Wilhelmine Juliane Amalie (1808-1893), married to Otto Reinhold von Buhrmeister († 1858)
  • Friedericke Natalia (1810–1898), married to Hugo Baron von Toll († 1855)
  • Charlotte Christine (1811-1891), married to Reinhold Gustav Magnus von Ekesparre († 1876)
  • Alexander Otto (1814–1894), Herr auf Murratz, married to Elisabeth Ottilie von Vietinghoff-Scheel (1825–1907)
  • Ida Ottilie (1816-1884)
  • Arthur Adolf (1821–1874), öselscher district administrator and president of the öselian consistory , married to Ida von Hoyningen-Huene (1827–1907)
  • Caecilie Janette (1825–1904)

He was the landlord of Ropaka from 1823 to 1838 and from 1832 the landlord of the Kuiwast manor .

Career

Order of Saint Vladimir (3rd class)

Peter Wilhelm v. B. visited the Kronschule in Arensburg and studied 1804-1808 at the University of Tartu the law . From 1813 he was a member of the Knighthood Convention and was elected Land Marshal von Ösel in 1818. This post he held until his death in 1841 and was at that time with the Russian Order of St. Vladimir in 3rd grade decorated . In 1818 he was a member of the commission for the drafting of the Peasant Ordinance in Riga and that of the Equality Commission. His national political successes included the abolition of serfdom in Ösel, and he succeeded in getting the Osel landowners admitted to the “Livonian Noble Goods Credit Society”. He led the redesign of the farmers' bank and the associated melioration fund . During his term of office, a court court was established at the Oösel district council , which was the last appellate instance for peasant lawsuits. Under his leadership, a psychiatric department and a department for ophthalmology were set up in the Landhospital Arensburg . As a secondary school , he set up a “Higher Aristocratic District School” and a “ Daughter School ” for the nobles in 1840 . In 1833 he was a co-founder and from 1834–41 co-director of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga

literature

  • Georg von Krusenstjern : The land marshals and district administrators of the Livonian and the Öselschen knighthood in portraits. Hamburg 1963. pp. 213, 231 (portraits).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kronschule in Arensburg. In: Title Messages from the Areas of the History of Liv, Estonia and Courland, Volume 2. Society for History and Archeology of the Russian Baltic Sea Provinces, N. Kymmel's Bookstore, 1842, Original from Indiana University, digitized May 4, 2009, page 558, see also web links
  2. ^ On the history of the Livonian aristocratic goods credit society , Hermann Engelhardt (baron.), Verlag WF Häcker, 1902, original from Indiana University, digitized June 6, 2011 [1]
  3. ^ The jubilee of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia in Riga on December 6, 1884 , University of Tartu [2]
personal data
SURNAME Buxhoeveden, Peter Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Land Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Magnusdahl on Muhu
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1841
Place of death Kuiwast , Estonia