Fabian Steinheil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fabian Steinheil

Russian army general, Governor General of Finland. Discoverer of pargasite and cordierite, var. steinheilite

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1762

Place of Birth: Haapsalu, Lääne County, Estonia

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1831

Profession: politician, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Fabian Steinheil

  • Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil (Russian: ?????´? ????????? ???´??????, tr.
  • Faddéy Fyodorovich Shteyngel'; 14 October 1762 – 23 February 1831) was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824. Steinheil was born in Hapsal, Estonia.
  • His father's family was from region of Upper Rhine in Germany (where they had been burghers and officials of their hometowns); and his mother was from a cadet branch of the ancient Baltic House of Tiesenhausen, daughter of nobleman Fromhold Fabian Tiesenhausen, lord of Orina in Estonia.
  • Stenheil's uncle and father had received a baronial title from the imperial authorities. Fabian von Steinheil became a lieutenant in the Imperial Russian Army in 1782.
  • He took part in the war in Finland in 1788 and in 1791-92 he worked with construction of fortifications in Old Finland, after which he served in military cartography. He became a Major General in 1789 and took part in the campaigns in Prussia in 1806-1807 and Poland in 1805-1807.
  • He became a Lieutenant General in 1807 and commanded the Russian troops on Åland in 1809 during the Finnish War. In 1810 he was appointed as the Governor-General of Finland, to succeed Prince Michael Andrew Barclay de Tolly.
  • He was well regarded by the Finnish population and was made a count in 1812.
  • In 1813 he took part in the war against Napoleon as the commander of an army in Courland and Livonia, and was succeeded as Governor-General by the influential Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt.
  • However, due to Armfelt's fragile health, Steinheil soon returned to the post of Governor-General which he held to 1824, being then succeeded by Count Arseniy Zakrevskiy. He remained in Finland and died in Helsinki in 1831.

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