Theodor von Fircks
Theodor Baron von Fircks ( Russian Фёдор Иванович Фиркс Fjodor Iwanowitsch Firks ; known under the pseudonym DK Schédo-Ferroti; ) (born April 7, 1812 in Kalwen in Courland , today Kalvene , Liepāja district , Latvia ; † October 22, 1872 in Dresden ) was a German- Baltic engineer officer and writer.
Life
Baron Fircks , known as a writer under the name DK Schédo-Ferroti (Russian Шедо-Ферроти), trained as an engineer officer at the military school in Saint Petersburg and was active as such in bridge and railroad construction in southern Russia until 1859. One result of the studies made here was the work Lettres sur les chemins de fer en Russie (2nd edition, Berlin 1858; German, Riga and Dresden 1858).
As a writer, he became known in wider circles for his Études sur l'avenir de la Russie (Berlin 1858 ff.), Of which in particular the first part La libération des paysans (4th edition, Berlin 1859), then the ninth Le nihilisme en Russie (Berlin 1867) caused a sensation.
The latter is rich in interesting information about Russian society, about the Germans in Russia, etc. In the same he called the Russian Minister of Education Alexander Vasilyevich Golovin the "father of nihilism ".
After Fircks had meanwhile been given a position as Russia's diplomatic trade agent in Brussels, he had to be in 1863, when he wrote in a brochure Lettre d'un patriote polonais au gouvernement national de la Pologne publiée avec une préface et quelques notes explicatives par DK Schédo in a brochure published on behalf of Poland -Ferroti (Paris; Bruxelles; Leipzig; Berlin 1863) attacked the policy applied against this country, take his leave.
He then lived in Dresden until his death.
Works
- Le patrimoine du peuple. Berlin 1868 (in which he proposed the abolition of communal ownership).
- Lettres sur l'instruction populaire en Russie. Leipzig 1869.
- The International Labor Movement: Popular Considerations. Behr, Berlin 1872.
literature
- Reinhard Wittram : Fircks, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 168 ( digitized version ).
- DK Schédo-Ferroti . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 39 [77]: Чугуев – Шен. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1903, p. 366–367 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF ).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Theodor von Fircks. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fircks, Theodor von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fircks, Heinrich Erdmann Carl Friedrich Ernst Wilhelm Baron von; DK Schédo-Ferroti; Schedo-Ferroti, Theodor von; Fircks, Fedor Ivanovič; Fircks, Theodore de; Fircks, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic writer, Russian engineer officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalvene , Liepāja district |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1872 |
| Place of death | Dresden |