Wilhelm von Lieven

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Wilhelm Heinrich von Lieven (before 1865)

Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lieven ( Russian Вильгельм Карлович Ливен ; * September 18 July / September 29,  1799 greg. In Dünhof ; † January 22 July / February 3,  1880 greg. In St. Petersburg ), was a Russian general the infantry .

Life

Origin and family

Wilhelm was a member of the Baltic Barons Lieven . His parents were of the Lord of the Manor to the Courland goods Dünhof and Merzdorf Carl von Lieven (1778-1836) and Charlotte, born Countess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1778–1849).

He married in 1835 with Maria Aleksandrovna Sablukowa (1814-1878), daughter of the Russian Lieutenant General and Governor General of St. Petersburg Alexander Alexandrowitsch Sablukow (1783-1857). The children Sophia (1844–1855), Katharina (1848–1849), Elena (1851–1869) and Nicolai (1854–1874) resulted from the marriage.

Career

Lieven attended grammar school from 1814 to 1817 and studied military science in Dorpat from 1817 to 1819 . Studies in Stuttgart and Paris followed.

From 1821 he served in the Russian army and in 1823 was ensign in Alexander I's suite . In 1825 he was on the General Staff of the Guard and took part in the Russo-Turkish War from 1828 to 1829 . In the meantime , he advanced to the position of staff captain and also took part in the Polish campaign in 1831 , where he was quartermaster in the department of the Guard. As a captain he was quartermaster in the 1st Guard Infantry Division in 1832 and was sent on a special mission to Constantinople and Asia Minor in 1833 . He was promoted to colonel in 1834 and in 1836 was wing adjutant and chief quartermaster of the Guard Corps. In 1842 he was sent again on a special mission to Vienna , Serbia and Constantinople. As major general of the imperial suite, he became adjutant general in 1845 and accompanied Nikolai I abroad. He became Lieutenant General in 1849 and was Quartermaster General of the General Staff from 1855 to 1861. After being promoted to General of the Infantry in 1859, he was Governor General of the Baltic provinces from 1861 to 1864 , and a member of the Imperial Council in 1863 . In 1871 he became the chief hunter of the imperial court. Lieven was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1857 , from 1848 to 1880 patron of the St. Catherine's Church in St. Petersburg, and from 1862 an honorary member of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia in Riga.

Property ownership

He was temporarily owned by Ivanovskaya in the Yaroslavl governorate , owned Pawassern in Courland from 1864 to 1873 and Dworžica in the Vitebsk governorate from 1870 . Without being a landowner in Livonia or on Oesel , Lieven received the Livonian indigenous population in 1862 and the Oeselian in 1865 with his descent .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Alexander Liven: Documents and news on a family history of the barons, barons, counts and princes Lieven. Volume 2, Mitau 1911, pp. 402-403

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He may also have been born on October 11, 1800 (greg.), Cf. u. a. BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital or Amburger (web links) or album academicum (FN 2)?
  2. ↑ a b Nicolai von Essen (ed.): Genealogical manual of the Oeselschen knighthood . Tartu 1935, p. 531.
  3. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Tartu, 1889, p.83 .
personal data
SURNAME Lieven, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lieven, Wilhelm Heinrich von (full name); Ливен, Вильгельм Карлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Dünhof
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1880
Place of death St. Petersburg