Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

German noble

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1737

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 28-Nov-1820

Profession: writer, poet, librarian, poet lawyer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

  • Ludwig Heinrich Freiherr von Nicolay (Born Nicolay; Russian: ?????´? ????´??? ??????´?, romanized: Andréj L'vovic Nikolái; 25 December 1737, Strasbourg – 18 November [O.S.
  • 6] 1820, Monrepos north of Vyborg) was a German poet of the Enlightenment.
  • He served as President of the St.
  • Petersburg Academy of Sciences between 1798 and 1803. Nicolay was the son of a Strasbourg archivist.
  • He graduated from the University of Strasbourg with a degree in law.
  • Like his father, he served as a librarian to a string of rich nobles.
  • Prince Dmitry Gallitsyn employed Nicolay as his secretary in Vienna and Paris where he came to know Voltaire, Diderot, d'Alembert and other luminaries of the Enlightenment.
  • In 1769 Nicolay was invited to the Russian Empire to be a teacher of logic for future Emperor Paul I of Russia.
  • In 1782 (on the same day as Goethe) Nicolay was ennobled and granted the title of baron by Joseph II.
  • When Paul became emperor, he appointed Nicolay to run the St.
  • Petersburg Academy of Sciences (15 April 1798 – 2 June 1803).
  • Nicolay's private library, collections (cameos, letters and other documents) and pictures are now in the possession of the Finnish National Library in Helsinki.
  • This library is a very rare example of the Russian libraries from the age of Enlightenment.In 1803 Baron von Nicolay settled into retirement at his estate Monrepos north of Vyborg.
  • This estate belonged to the Nicolay family from 1788 to 1944 (when Vyborg was annexed to the Soviet Union).

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