Schlözer
Schlözer is the name of a family of scholars, merchants, diplomats and artists.
history
In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century, three generations of the family were active as Protestant clergy in the Hohenlohe-Kirchberg county . With August Ludwig , who was born in Gaggstadt (today part of Kirchberg an der Jagst ) and who lost his father at an early age, the family came to Göttingen and Russia. He was ennobled by Tsar Alexander I in 1804 . He was already working temporarily in Lübeck; his daughter Dorothea married the Lübeck merchant and mayor Mattheus Rodde , but came back to Göttingen in 1810 after his bankruptcy. Her brother Karl was an independent merchant from 1805 and later a Russian consul in Lübeck. Part of the family in Germany remained Russian subjects until 1873, another part went entirely to Russia and founded the Russian branch of the family in Vitebsk .
coat of arms
The shield is divided into 4 parts. In the first field is a golden cross in the blue field; in the second, cut diagonally, from the upper corner on, there is a golden aristocratic crown in the red field and a black eagle's wing in the golden field; in the third part, also in the golden field, there is Saint Nestor of Kiev , author of the Nestor Chronicle (researched and edited by Schlözer), with a silver book opened in front of him in the red field, with the (Russian) inscription Nestor ; in the fourth part there are three silver stars horizontally on a black stripe in a golden field. The shield is crowned with the noble helmet and a crown with ostrich feathers. The side decorations on the shield are streaked with gold in red and blue. Below the sign is the inscription (Russian): memor fui dierum antiquorum (Psalm 142,5 Vulgate )
Important representatives of the family
The German branch includes:
- August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), historian and publicist in Göttingen, married to Caroline Friederike von Schlözer (1753–1808), artist and painter
- their children:
- Dorothea Schlözer (1770–1825), married to the mayor of Lübeck Mattheus Rodde , friends with Charles de Villers
- Christian von Schlözer (1774–1831), professor of constitutional law in Moscow and Bonn
- Karl von Schlözer (1780–1859), merchant and Russian consul in Lübeck
- his children
- Nestor von Schlözer (1808–1899), Russian consul in Stettin (second marriage to the painter Luise von Schlözer )
- his sons
- Karl Nestor von Schlözer (1839–1906) Imperial Russian State Councilor in Vitebsk
- Karl von Schlözer (diplomat, 1854) (1854–1916), diplomat in the Prussian service
- Leopold von Schlözer (1859–1946), Prussian officer and writer
- Dina Cäcilie von Schlözer (1820–1904), married to Theodor Curtius (Lübeck)
- Kurd von Schlözer (1822-1894), diplomat in the Prussian service
- his children
The Russian branch includes:
- Julius von Schlözer (1808–1898), doctor in Moscow (son of Christian von Schlözer?)
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- Pavel Juljewitsch Schloezer (1841–1898), pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory
- Fyodor Juljewitsch Schloezer (1842–1906), Magistrate in Vitebsk, and his children:
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- Boris de Schloezer (1881–1969), Russian-French music and literary critic, philosopher and translator
- Tatjana Fjodorovna de Schloezer (1883–1922), lover and later wife in the second marriage of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin
- their common son
- Julian Alexandrowitsch Scriabin (1908-1919)
Web links
- Owned by the von Schlözer family , Schloezeriana collection of the University of Göttingen (completely digitized)
- Russia and the "Göttingische Seele" online catalog of a Göttingen exhibition from 2003 with numerous Schloezeriana
Individual evidence
- ^ After the nobility diploma; reproduced in German by: Christian von Schlözer: August Ludwig von Schlözers public and private life , Volume 2, Leipzig 1828, p. 5