Johann Christoph Gustav von Struve

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Johann Christoph Gustav von Struve was a German diplomat. He was born on 26 September 1763 in Regensburg (at this time a Free Imperial City) to the diplomat Anton Sebastian von Struve, the Russian ambassador to the Reichstag in Regensburg. His mother was Johanne Dorothea Werner of Sondershausen in the Thuringian states.

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Gustav, as he was known, was a signer to the Treaty of Paris of 1814 [ citation needed ].

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Gustav came from a distinguished family, with many of his siblings also being civil servants to the Russian court, in the tradition of their father, Anton:

Family of Gustav and Sibilla

In Stuttgart on 18 May 1793, Gustav married Sibilla Christiane Friederike von Hochstetter, the daughter of the noted German political leader, Johann Amand Andreas von Hochstetter and Elisabeth Friederike von Buehler. [1]

They had eleven known children:

Gustav died on 6 May 1828 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, during the early days of the German Confederation.

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References

  1. 1 2 Ansgar Reiss (2004). Radikalismus und Exil: Gustav Struve und die Demokratie in Deutschland und Amerika (in German). Franz Steiner. pp. 30–31. ISBN   3-515-08371-5.

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