Alexander Labzin

Alexander Fyodorovich labsin (Russian Александр Фёдорович Лабзин, wiss.Transliteration Aleksandr Fedorovič Labzin; . * 27 Januarjul / February 7 1766greg in Moscow, .. . † 27 Apriljul / May 9 1825greg in Simbirsk ) was a Russian writer, mystic, Freemasons, translator and editor of Sionski Vestnik ( " Zionsboten "). From 1799 he was Conference Secretary, 1818 Vice- President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Labsin was one of the most influential Russian Freemasons of the first decades of the 19th century. He studied at IG Black, the professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow. In 1800 he opened his own Rosicrucian lodge.

Him influenced the German Pietist writers Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling and Karl von Eckartshausen which he also translated. He also translated Jacob Boehme and French literature ( including Mercier, The Judge ) into Russian.

When the president of the Academy of Arts suggested in a meeting to appoint Alexei Andreevich Arakcheev an honorary member, and knew only to reply to the question of what his services existed, because he was " the tsar at the very next " stand, hit labsin in his capacity as meeting secretary to the Academy of Arts, the coachman Ilya Baikov to appoint Academician, because this stand the Tsar not only close, but sit still in front of him.

Lapsin was then exiled by Tsar Alexander to Simbirsk.