{"id":4597,"date":"2021-08-11T01:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T01:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/struvefamily.org\/?page_id=4597"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:43:05","slug":"johann-christoph-gustav-von-struve-1763-1828","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.struvefamily.org\/?page_id=4597","title":{"rendered":"Johann Christoph Gustav Von Struve (1763 – 1828)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gustav, as he was most commonly known, was born on 26 September 1763 in Regensburg in the Kingdom of Bavaria during the Holy Roman Empire of German States to the diplomat Anton Sebastian von Struve<\/a>, the Russian ambassador to the Reichstag, and his mother was Sophie Friederike Reimers. His brother was Heinrich Christian Gottfried von Struve. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Stuttgart on 18 May 1793, Gustav<\/em> married Sibilla Christiane Friederike von Hochstetter, the daughter of the German political leader, Johann Amand Andreas von Hochstetter and Elisabeth Friederike von Buehler. They had eleven known children. Gustav <\/em>was a signer to the Treaty of Paris of 1814. There is also some confusion as to whether the name is Christoph<\/em> or Christian<\/em>; here we have chosen Christoph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johann Christoph completed his education together with his brother Georg at the Karlsakademie in Stuttgart (1777\u20131780) and then at the University of Erlangen. As early as 1782 he was employed by the Russian embassy in Warsaw, where he worked for eight years under Count Stackelberg. In 1790 he became titular councilor and joined his father at the Russian embassy in Regensburg. In 1798 he was promoted to court councilor and in 1799 transferred to the Russian embassy in Munich. In 1803 he belonged to the Russian legation at the Reichs deputation, which worked out the Reichs deputation shaupt schluss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below, Johann Christoph Gustav von Struve and Sibilla Christiane Friederike von Hochstetter pastels by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750\u20131812)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a brief assignment in the Russian embassy in Holland (1808), he was transferred to Stuttgart in 1809. During the Napoleonic Wars he had to withdraw from the Confederation of the Rhine and was entrusted with various missions in Austria and Germany. In 1815 he returned to Stuttgart. In 1817 he was appointed Russian envoy in Karlsruhe – a position he held for 11 years until his death. In 1820 he was awarded the Russian Order of Saint Anne and in 1825 with the Order of Saint Vladimir for his long service.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He and Sibilla had ten children (five sons and five daughters) who survived him (two died in childhood):<\/p>\n\n\n\n