Reason (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Raison

Raison ( [/ʁɛ.zɔ̃/] ; Russian Резон (ъ) ; Latvian Rezons ) is the name of a Baltic German aristocratic family .

history

The family name Raison comes from French and means "reason", "reason", "rationality".

The first known representative of the sex is considered to be the professor of logic and metaphysics at the Coburg grammar school Jean Ferdinand Raison († 1764), a Reformed French refugee from Paris . With him and his wife Emilie Charlotte (née Badon), the uninterrupted line of the family began.

On October 21, 1787, King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia gave the Prussian nobility to Friedrich Wilhelm von Raison (1726–1791).

With a resolution of March 18, 1850 with reference to an expert opinion of February 21, 1850, the Russian hereditary nobility was bestowed on several members of the family. The decision was announced in the St. Petersburg Senate Gazette on March 31, 1850 and was signed by the Chairman of the State Council Alexander Ivanovich Tschernyschow . As a result, the family was entitled to register in the fourth part of the noble sex book.

The family was not enrolled in the Courland Knighthood , although in Courland from the first generation until the First World War the center of life and activity of the sex existed.

At least six members of the family became pastors .

coat of arms

The coat of arms (1787) in a half-split and divided shield , shows the royal crowned gold-armored black Prussian eagle with golden clover stems in the wings, behind a crowned red lion ( Duchy of Courland ) and below in gold three (3: 1) green mallets ( Family coat of arms ) . On the crowned helmet with blankets mixed with green, silver and gold, three ostrich feathers (silver, gold, silver).

Relatives

Friedrich Wilhelm von Raison (1726–1791), Prussian privy councilor, Kurland-Russian statesman, ⚭ 1772 in Mitau Anna Sophia Recke (1748–1820), a sister of Johann Friedrich von Recke
- Johann Georg Wilhelm von Raison (1775–1836), pastor of Groß-Autz, ⚭I 1803 Luise Wehrt († 1809), ⚭I Charlotte Wilhelmine Bursy
  - Wilhelm Karl von Raison (1806–1863), pastor in Windau
    - August Friedrich Karl von Raison (1843–1915), Senator, ⚭ 1875 Nadežda Ivanovna Busko
      - Wilhelm von Raison (1879–1928), State Secretary for Finland, ⚭ Leonidoj Leonidovnoj
        Igumenija Serafima (1914–1999)
  - Ernst August von Raison (1807–1882), clergyman, ⚭ 1836 Louise Catharina von Böhlendorff (1811–1878)
- Charlotte Christiane von Raison (1778–1795), ⚭ Carl Christian Schiemann (1763–1835), doctor

literature

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Raison. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Karl Dannenberg: On the history and statistics of the Mitau grammar school , commemorative publication June 17, 1875
Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn
- Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses B 8, Volume 41, 1668, pp. 299-306; B 22, vol. 115, 1998, pp. 316-323
- Adelslexikon , Volume 11, 2000, pp. 153-154
Johannes von Raison: Memories of the Dorpater boy life . In: Einst und Jetzt, Jahrbuch des Verein für Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 33 (1988), pp. 67-91.
- Life memories. I., Jugenderinnerungen aus Kurland / by Johannes von Raison (From places of my being, 1881–1902: Jugenderinnerungen aus Kurland.) 194 pages ( digitized on E-varamu)
- Life memories. II., Study time in Dorpat / by Johannes von Raison (From places of my becoming, 1902–1906: study time in Dorpat.) ( Digitized on E-varamu)
- Life memories. III., By Johannes von Raison (From places of my work in the homeland of Courland, 1906–1919.) 234 pages ( digitized on E-varamu)
- Life memories. IV., By Johannes von Raison ( digitized ; digitized on E-varamu)
Self-biography of Johann Georg Wilhelm von Raison. , In: Meeting reports of the Courland Society for Literature and Art and annual report of the Courland Provincial Museum from the years 1909 and 1910. ( PDF )
J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg
- Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : III. Volume, 2nd section, 1st volume, The blooming nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Edelleute , 1878, p. 315, Tfl. 369
- Maximilian Gritzner : III. Volume, Section 11, The Nobility of the Russian Baltic Provinces. - Second part: The non-enrolled nobility , 1901, p. 158, Tfl. 103 ( digitized in the SUB Goettingen )

Web link

Commons : Raison - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Karl Dannenberg : On the history and statistics of the high school in Mitau , Festschrift June 17, 1875, p. VI
↑ Maximilian Gritzner: Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian status increases and grace acts from 1600–1873. Published by Mitscher & Roestell, Berlin 1874, p. 52.
↑ ^a ^b Maximilian Gritzner: III. Volume, Section 11, The Nobility of the Russian Baltic Provinces. - Second part: The non-enrolled nobility , 1901, p. 158, Tfl. 103 ( digitized in the SUB Goettingen ).

[1] Karl Dannenberg : On the history and statistics of the high school in Mitau , Festschrift June 17, 1875, p. VI

[2] Maximilian Gritzner: Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian status increases and grace acts from 1600–1873. Published by Mitscher & Roestell, Berlin 1874, p. 52.

[MG-3] Maximilian Gritzner: III. Volume, Section 11, The Nobility of the Russian Baltic Provinces. - Second part: The non-enrolled nobility , 1901, p. 158, Tfl. 103 ( digitized in the SUB Goettingen ).