Dear Roland, Thanks for these details which were not yet easily accessible when I collected my information a few years back. Soon I will have access to Agnes Stache-Weiske's study and read more on the pages you mention. Best, Jan
On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 00:42, Roland Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jan, > > I have no research of my own to show here, but only reproduce the > results of Agnes Stache-Weiske's study. According to her exposition, > foreigners, Germans in particular, were specifically recruited in the > years of the founding of the city of St. Petersburg, where Germans > soon formed the largest foreign population group. Among the > foreigners, the merchants belonged to a separate group. Since the > German merchants were not considered as a unit, but were named after > their cities of origin (Hamburg, Lübeck, Rostock, etc.), the English > merchants formed the largest group in the 18th century, followed by > the Dutch (op. cit., p. 386). > > The first "Böhtlingk" who came to St. Petersburg - possibly in 1713 - > was Otto's great-grandfather Peter, who was baptized in Lübeck on > 15.6.1689. Together with the Dutch merchant Abraham van Limburg, Peter > Böhtlingk had a trading house in St. Petersburg since 1720 at the > latest. Their trading house "van Limburg & Bohtlingk" is mentioned as > one of the nineteen Dutch merchant houses located there at that time. > Peter Böhtlingk therefore joined the Dutch merchant community and not > that of his hometown Lübeck (op. cit., p. 387). > > Although Peter Böhtlingk belonged to the Dutch merchant community, he > was a member of the German Evangelical Lutheran congregation in St. > Petersburg. The German Protestants had already received the right to > establish their own church in 1704, even before the Dutch, English or > French congregations. Peter Böhtlingk held the office of a > churchwarden and was also the church elder of the St. Petri Church. > His first wife was the daughter of the churchwarden Johann Sigfried > Snettler; after her death Peter married Katharina Feldhusen, who came > from a German merchant family (op. cit., pp. 389 f.). > > Best, > Roland Steiner > > > -- *Jan E.M. Houben* Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology *Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite* École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres) *Sciences historiques et philologiques * Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120) *johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <[email protected]>* *https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben <https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben>* *https://www.classicalindia.info* <https://www.classicalindia.info> LabEx Hastec OS 2021 -- *L'Inde Classique* augmentée: construction, transmission et transformations d'un savoir scientifique
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