Reinhold Samson from Himmelstjerna

Reinhold Johann Ludwig Samson of Himmelstjerna ( Russian Рейнгольд Иоганн Людвиг Самсон фон Гиммельштерна * June 16 ^jul. / 27. June 1778 ^greg. In Urbs , † November 14 ^jul. / 26. November 1858 ^greg. Ibid. ) Was a Livonian State politician.

Life

family

Reinhold was a member of the Baltic noble family Samson von Himmelstjerna . His parents were the Livonian country marshal Carl Gustav Samson von Himmelstjerna (1750–1825) and Juliane, b. Pigeon from the Issen (1758–1818).

His first marriage in 1799 was Charlotte von Samson (1778–1807) and then married Maria Taube von der Issen (1787–1838) on Lustifer and Kallküll in 1808. The two marriages resulted in a total of seven children, including the Russian Lieutenant General Hermann Samson von Himmelstjerna (1800–1881).

Career

Salomon received home lessons before studying law in Leipzig from 1796 to 1798 .

Subsequently, he held various administrative functions in Livonia and was district judge in Dorpat from 1807 to 1818 . From 1812 to 1827 he was district deputy for the Dorpat and Pernau districts and, after various positions, became vice-president of the Livonian court in 1824. He remained in this position until 1834. From 1827 to 1851, he was the Livonian district administrator. From 1829 to 1840 he was employed in the Höchst Chancellery S. M. in St. Petersburg , and from 1851 to 1856 he was president of the Livonian court. In 1843 he also became a Real Councilor of State .

Samson von Himmelstjerna owns the Livonian estates of Kibbijerw (1809–1821), Wissust (1811), Rippoka (1819–1820), Kurrista (1820–1845), Kawershof (1824–1845), Ludenhof (1825–1831), Urbs (1827 -1830) and also temporarily Torma, Padefest and Lillastfer obsessed . Against this background, he worked tirelessly for the agricultural reform and the farmers' ordinance, and was therefore also a member or deputy of various committees, commissions and institutions on several occasions.

From 1838 to 1851 he was president of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces , received the Courland Indigenate in 1840 and an honorary chair in the Livonian District Council in 1851 and was Honorary Curator of the Governorate High School in Riga from 1844 to 1855 .

Works

There are 38 publications in five languages known, including the translation of Hamlet .

Institutions of the Livonian Trial , Wilhelm Ferdinand Häcker , Riga 1824 ( digitized on HathiTrust )
Livonian inheritance and proximity law , 1828 ( digitized from the University of Tartu )
Historical attempt at the abolition of serfdom in the Baltic provinces with a special reference to the Duchy of Livonia , Das Inland 1838
On the history of peasant freedom in Livonia: Reprint of a number of pamphlets and newspaper articles from the years 1817–1818 , Nicolai Kymmel , Riga 1878 ( digitized on HathiTrust)

literature

W. v. Bock : Samson von Himmelstjerna, Reinhold Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 317-324.
Georg von Krusenstjern : The land marshals and district administrators of the Livonian and the Öselschen knighthood in portraits. Hamburg 1963. p. 148 (with portrait).
Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1111 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods , part 1, 1: Livland, Görlitz 1929, pp. 175 , 176 and 179-180.

personal data
SURNAME	Samson von Himmelstjerna, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Samson von Himmelstjerna, Reinhold Johann Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Livonian state politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH	Urbs
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1858
Place of death	Urbs

[GH-1] A ^b Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods , part 1, 1: Livland, Görlitz 1929, pp. 175 , 176 and 179-180.