Schlözer

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Coat of arms in the Russian nobility diploma from 1804

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:

their children:
Karl von Schlözer
his children
his sons

The Russian branch includes:

  • Julius von Schlözer (1808–1898), doctor in Moscow (son of Christian von Schlözer?)
  • Pavel Juljewitsch Schloezer (1841–1898), pianist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory
  • Fyodor Juljewitsch Schloezer (1842–1906), Magistrate in Vitebsk, and his children:
their common son

Web links

Commons : Schlözer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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