Balthasar von Campenhausen
.. Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (Russian Балтазар Балтазарович Кампенгаузен; * Januarjul 5 / 16 January 1772greg on Good Lenzenhof ( Latvian: . Lencu muiža ) in Wenden, Livonia; † 11 Septemberjul / 23 September in St. 1823greg. Petersburg) was a Russian statesman of Baltic German descent.
Family
Balthasar Campenhausen was the eldest son of the Imperial Russian Senator, Privy Council, civil governor of Livonia, chief administrative officer and landlords to Orellen, Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen and his wife Sophie Eleonore von Campenhausen, born Woldeck of Arneburg (1744-1791), the heiress by Rohrbeck in the Altmark. He is the grandson of the Russian lieutenant general and governor-general of Finland, Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (who is also the builder of his birthplace on the estate was Orellen ) and his second wife, Helene Juliane née Straelborn. Balthasar (III ) had three sisters and three brothers. His brother Hermann (1773-1836) took over from his father the good Orellen and married the Countess Keyserling. His brother Christopher (1780-1841) was a member of Russia's upper consistory in St. Petersburg. His sister Leocadie married with Magnus Barclay de Tolly, the only son of the Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly. His sister Charlotte (1778-1831) married the Russian governor of Estonia, Gotthard Wilhelm von Budberg - Bœnninghausen. His sister Sophie was maid of honor of Russian Hereditary Princess Helene Pavlovna of Mecklenburg [- Schwerin ], Mistress of the Hereditary Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg [- Schwerin ] and wife of Mecklenburg (first) Minister Leopold von Plessen
Grandmother Helene
Father Balthasar ( II )
Mother Sophie Eleonore
Life
Balthasar Campenhausen studied at the universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg and Göttingen and graduated with a thesis on the subject draft physical peoples, religious and cultural maps of the Russian Empire from. He then joined the Russian civil service and was in the diplomatic service operating in Poland and Sweden. From Campenhausen also led the restructuring of the business school and the Department of Surgery in St. Petersburg. Tsar Alexander I appointed him director of the 3rd Department ( Medical Department ) in the Russian Interior Ministry. In 1802 he was sent by the Czar in the Russian provinces on the Black Sea to take measures to improve trade and also quarantine measures to prevent the spread of the plague from Turkey and Persia.
1805 Balthasar Campenhausen was appointed governor of Taganrog. There he developed an intense activity: the development of the port, the installation of new merchandise store, the intensification of coastal shipping, the establishment of a maritime school, a Chamber of Commerce, a pharmacy, and the improvement of medical care attributable to him. The city was expanded systematically planned, with artificial lighting by oil lamps, plant of the City Park (now Gorky Park ) and new roads. Several streets in the city today bear his name.
1809 Campenhausen was recalled to St. Petersburg and appointed Minister of Finance, in 1810 he was chamberlain, privy councilor and member of the State Council and in 1811 Senator. In 1823 he was appointed Minister of the Interior, but he died shortly after taking office.
Works
- Attempt at a geographical- statistical description of the governorships of the Russian Empire. I. governorship Olouez. Göttingen, 1792
- Elements of the Russian state law, or the main features of the basic constitution of the Russian Empire. Göttingen, 1792
- Selection of topographical peculiarities of St. Peter Burgi 's governorates. Riga, 1797
- Liefländisches magazine, or publicistisch collection and statistical materials to the knowledge of the Constitution and statistics of Livonia. Gotha, 1803
- Genealogical chronological history of the House of Romanov and his allerdurchlauchtigsten vorälterlichen parent company. Leipzig, 1805