Wilhelm von Freygang
Wilhelm von Freygang (* 1782 in St. Petersburg , † 1849 in Venice ) was a Russian diplomat and writer .
Life
Freygang came from a family of German descent. His father Johann Gottlieb Freygang (1755–1815) was the personal physician of Tsar Paul I (1754–1801) in Petersburg . As early as 1797 Wilhelm von Freygang worked in the State College of the Foreign Office and in 1800 in the office of Vice Chancellor Alexander Borissowitsch Kurakin . From this he was delegated to the University of Göttingen to study . He took diplomacy and statistics as well as botany and mineralogy. On June 1, 1804, Freygang received his doctorate in philosophy from the Philosophical Faculty of Göttingen University on the basis of two writings on serfdom and meteorites .
Back in Petersburg he was responsible for foreign correspondence with Friedrich von Buxhoeveden in 1805 and with General Ivan Ivanovich Michelson in 1806. He then worked in the Russian embassies in Vienna and Paris. In 1808 he married Fredericka Afanasjevna Kudrjavceva in Vienna. In 1812 he stayed in Persia for peace negotiations , which resulted in a travelogue to the Caucasus , Georgia and Persia.
After working at the embassy in the Netherlands from 1814, Freygang worked as consul general in Saxony from 1820 . Here, in 1824, together with the Leipzig councilor Christian Ludwig Stieglitz and the Saxon military historian Carl Heinrich Aster , a memorial for the dead of the Battle of Leipzig in the form of a Gothic chapel should be built on the monarch's hill , but this was not realized.
From 1834 until the end of his life in 1849 he worked in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto .
Memberships
- 1805 Corresponding member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences
- 1832 Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Fonts
- Notice sur l'Université de Göttingue (note on the Göttingen University) , Göttingen 1804
- Sur l''affranchissement des serfs (On the liberation of the serfs) and Idées sur le phénomène des aérolithes (Thoughts on the phenomenon of meteorites) Writings for a doctorate, Göttingen 1804
- The organs of hearing, or Doctor Gall on his travels . A comedy, Göttingen 1805
- Genius prank . Comedy in one act, Göttingen 1806
- Wilhelm von Freygang's letters about the Caucasus and Georgia: with an attached travelogue about Persia from 1812 , translated from French by Heinrich von Struve, Hamburg 1817
- Letters about Alexisbad and the surrounding area , translated from the French by Eugen, Frhr. von Gutschmid, Leipzig 1830
Web links
- Freygang, Wilhelm von. In: University of Potsdam, Institute for Slavic Studies. Retrieved June 23, 2015 .
- Works by and about Wilhelm von Freygang in the German Digital Library
- Russia and the "Göttingen soul". In: anthology for an exhibition in Göttingen 2004, with information about Freygang. Retrieved June 23, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Kudriaffsky, Friederike . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-036-4 , Volume 2, pp. 94/95
- ↑ Völkerschlachtdenkmal ("Totenmonument") in the German Digital Library
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 86.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freygang, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frejgang, Vasilij Ivanovič; Freygang, Guillaume de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian diplomat and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1849 |
| Place of death | Venice |