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H.H. Keyserling
H.H. Keyserling (1866–1944), also known as Count Henry Hugo Keyserling or The Whaler, was part of the noble Baltic German Keyserlingk family dating back to the 12th century. (The Keyserlingk surname frequently appears as Keyserling and sometimes as Kejzerling.) His complete name was Heinrich Jeannot Otto Hugo Eugen von Keyserlingk. H.H. Keyserling was born in what today is the Baltic country of Lithuania. He inherited the family estate, called Staniuny, after his older brother, Eugen, who had first rights, declined the estate. After graduating in 1888 from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy in St. Petersburg, Henry joined the Imperial Navy and served in the Pacific. In 1892 he left the navy and learned whaling while working incognito as a sailor aboard a Norwegian whaling ship. Keyserling subsequently negotiated a whaling concession with Korea. He also negotiated a 21-year whaling concession with Russia covering various areas of the Siberian coastline. Keyserling operated his wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined as a geographically determined ethnic group. However, it is estimated that several thousand people with some form of (Baltic) German identity still reside in Latvia and Estonia. Since the Middle Ages, native German-speakers formed the majority of merchants and clergy, and the large majority of the local landowning nobility who effectively constituted a ruling class over indigenous Latvian and Estonian non-nobles. By the time a distinct Baltic German ethnic identity began emerging in the 19th century, the majority of self-identifying Baltic Germans were non-nobles belonging mostly to the urban and professional middle class. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Catholic German traders and crusaders (''see '') began settling in the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
