Friedrich von der Pahlen

For other members of Pahlen family, see Pahlen family.
Friedrich von der Pahlen
Фёдор Петрович Пален
Personal details
Born(1780-09-02)September 2, 1780
Mitau, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(now Jelgava, Latvia)
DiedJanuary 8, 1863(1863-01-08) (aged 82)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

Friedrich Alexander Graf[a] von der Pahlen (Russian: Фёдор Петрович Пален, romanized: Fyodor Petrovich Palen; September 2, 1780 – January 8, 1863) was a Baltic German diplomat and administrator.

Biography

Friedrich was the youngest son of Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, a prominent Russian courtier. He worked at Russian diplomatic missions in Sweden, France and Great Britain. In 1809–1811 he was Imperial Russia's Ambassador to the United States, in 1811–1815 he was the Ambassador to Brazil and in 1815–1822 he was the Ambassador to Bavaria.

Later, he became the General-Governor of Novorossiya and the namestnik (deputy) of Bessarabia (following the departure of Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov to the Caucasus). He was also a member of the State Council of Imperial Russia. In the context of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, Pahlen served as governor of the Danubian Principalities, which were administered by Russia pending the payment of war reparations by the Ottoman Empire (his official title was that of Plenipotentiary President of the Divans in Moldavia and Wallachia); he was replaced by Pyotr Zheltukhin on February 2, 1829.[1]

In Jewish history, Pahlen is credited with opening of the first secular Jewish school in Odessa.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.

References

  1. ^ Giurescu, p.122
  2. ^ Sem40.ru Archived 2006-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
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