Alexander von Güldenstubbe

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
Monarch	Alexander II
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Pontus Brevern-de la Gardie
Personal details
Born	7 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)
Died	23 April [O.S. 11] 1884 (aged 83); St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Resting place	Karmel; (present-day Kaarma, Estonia)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Branch/service	Imperial Russian Army
Years of service	1818 – 1884
Commands	1st 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/wars	November Uprising; Crimean War

Magnus Alexander Ludwig von[2] Güldenstubbe (Russian: Александр Иванович 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.

Coat of arms of the Güldenstubbe family (de) of 1751, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[1]

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.

Awards

Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1837)
Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1845)
Order of St. George, 4th class (1847)
Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1848)
Order of St. Anna, 1st class (1849)
Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1855)
Order of the White Eagle (1856)
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1863)
Order of St. Vladimir, 1st class (1872)
Order of St. Andrew (1875)

Notes

Citations

Klingspor, Carl Arvid. Baltic coat of arms book, pp. 41
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 surname alone in English, use Schiller or Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.

Sources

Essen, Nicolai von. Genealogical Handbook of Oesel's Knighthood. Tartu (1935)
Welding, Olaf. Baltic German Biographical Dictionary 1710-1960. (1970), from the Baltic Biographical Dictionary Digital

Military offices
Preceded by Position established	Commander of the Moscow Military District 10 August [O.S. 29 November] 1864 – 17 April [O.S. 5] 1879	Succeeded by Pontus Brevern-de la Gardie

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[1] Klingspor, Carl Arvid. Baltic coat of arms book, pp. 41

[2] 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 surname alone in English, use Schiller or Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.