Philipp von Brunnow

Philipp Graf von Brunnow ( born August 31, 1797 in Dresden, † April 12, 1875 in Darmstadt) was a Russian diplomat.

Life and work

Brunnow studied from 1815 to 1818 in Leipzig jurisprudence and political science, and then entered the Russian civil service. After he had been employed in several embassies and in the immediate vicinity Nesselrode and had also attended the campaign against the Turks in 1828 and 1829 as a civilian commissioner, he was ambassador in Stuttgart in 1839 and 1840, ambassador in London. Here came under his special participation concluded the treaty of 15 July 1840 in the United Russia, Austria, Prussia and Great Britain with exclusion of France to peace in the Middle East.

Notably, his work was also the London Protocol of 8 May 1852 by the interests of Russia and Great Britain in the North of Europe should be jointly and severally connected. As a result dismissed the Oriental intricacies 1854, he was appointed to Frankfurt in October 1855 Russian envoy to the Bundestag.

The change of rulers in Russia led Brunnow back to the scene of the great diplomatic activity. In association with the Count Orlov, he represented Russia at the Peace Congress in Paris in 1856, then went in 1857 as ambassador to Berlin, but returned in March 1858 in the same property back to London and was raised on December 19, 1860 to the rank of ambassador.

However, not succeeded in restoring the old good relations between Russia and Britain; notably in 1863 during the negotiations on Poland, he had a hard stand

More sympathy for the British people, he took as a representative of Russia at the conferences that took place in 1864 because of Schleswig -Holstein, and where, but in vain, defended with great zeal the Danish interests. He also lived for the Luxembourg Affairs at the London Congress of 1867. In June 1870, he went as ambassador to Paris, but was accredited in February 1871 in the same capacity again in London and lived there at the Pontuskonferenz.

He was raised in 1871 in the rank of count. In July 1874, he retired because of old age from his ambassadorship.