Alexander von Güldenstubbe

Alexander von Güldenstubbe
General of the Infantry Alexander von Güldenstubbe.
Commander of the Moscow Military District
In office
10 August [O.S. 29 November] 1864 – 17 April [O.S. 5] 1879
MonarchAlexander II
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPontus Brevern-de la Gardie
Personal details
Born7 January [O.S. 27 December 1800] 1801
Kaunifer Manor (et), Karmel, Ösel County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
(in present-day Kaarma, Saare County, Estonia)
Died23 April [O.S. 11] 1884 (aged 83)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Resting placeKarmel
(present-day Kaarma, Estonia)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Russian Empire
Branch/service Imperial Russian Army
Years of service
1818 – 1884
Commands1st Brigade, 1st Grenadier Division
Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment
1st Brigade, 1st Guards Infantry Division
1st Grenadier Division
1st Guards Infantry Division
Moscow Military District (1864–1879)
Battles/warsNovember Uprising
Crimean War
Coat of arms of the Güldenstubbe family (de) of 1751, in the Baltic Coat of arms book [et] by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.

Magnus Alexander Ludwig von Güldenstubbe (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Гильденштуббе, tr. Aleksandr Ivanovich Gilʹdenshtubbe; 7 January [O.S. 27 November 1800] 1801 – 23 April [O.S. 11] 1884) was a Baltic German general of the Imperial Russian Army and commanded the Moscow Military District from 1864 to 1879. He participated in November Uprising in Poland and the Crimean War.

Biography

Origin

Güldenstubbe was born on 7 January [O.S. 27 December 1800] 1801 (27 December 1800 according to the Julian calendar at use in Russia at the time) in the family estate in Karmel (present-day Kaarma, Estonia), the seventh child of Johann Gustav von Güldenstubbe and Johanna Luise von Ekesparre (de). He was from the Baltic German and Swedish Güldenstubbe family (de), which was originally named Knutzen (or Knutson) and originated from either Holstein or Denmark.

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Citations

  1. ↑ Klingspor, Carl Arvid. Baltic coat of arms book, pp. 41
  2. ↑ ‹The template German title von is being considered for deletion.› In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means 'of' or 'from' and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by their last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.

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