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The Hauke-Bosak (more commonly called Hauke) family was originally a
German
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middle class
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family of
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origin which, after having settled in
Poland
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at the end of the 18th century, achieved great importance and titles of
nobility
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in
Congress Poland
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.
A short history of the family
The first known ancestor of the Hauke family was ''Johann Gaspar Hauck'', a
registrar
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at the
Imperial Chamber Court
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of the
Holy Roman Empire
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in
Wetzlar
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, who died in 1722 and was buried in his home town. By his wife ''Johanna Barbara'' of an unknown maiden name, he had ten children, of whom two sons, ''Johann Valentin'' (1698–1722) and ''Ignatz Marianus'' (1706–1784), came to important positions: Johann continued the family tradition of employment at the Court of Justice in Wetzlar, while Ignatz became a
secretary
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to the Government of the
Electorate of Mainz
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.
Ignatz, too, had many children, nine, with his wife Maria Franziska
Riedesel zu Eisenbach, who was an
illegitimate
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(later acknowledged) daughter of
Baron
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Georg
Riedesel zu Eisenbach, a member of one of the oldest
Hessian
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noble families. One of their sons, ''Johann Friedrich Michael Hauck'' (born 1737 in Mainz, died 1810 in
Warsaw
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) moved to
Saxony
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and later to Poland as a secretary of the powerful Count
Alois Friedrich von Brühl
Alois Friedrich von Brühl (; 31 July 1739 Dresden – 30 January 1793 Berlin) was a Polish- Saxon diplomat, politician, Freemason, soldier, actor and playwright.
Biography
He was the eldest son of minister Heinrich von Brühl, one of the adv ...
, ''
Starost
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'' of Warsaw, General of the Royal Polish
Artillery
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and son of
Heinrich von Brühl
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, the famous Saxon-Polish
minister.
In 1782, Count Alois von Brühl sold his Polish dignities and estates and returned to Saxony, but Johann Friedrich stayed in Warsaw with his family of seven children by an
Alsatian Protestant
preacher
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's daughter,
Maria Salomé Schweppenhäuser (1755–1833). Having changed his Christian names to the more Polish sounding ''Fryderyk Karol Emanuel'' and his
surname
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to ''Hauke'',
Fryderyk Karol Emanuel Hauke had considerable success as owner of a private school and later as
teacher
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of the
German language
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and
mathematics
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at an exclusive
Prussia
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n school for boys, called ''Warsaw Lycaeum''.
Three of Hauke's sons,
John Maurice, Ludwik August (1779–1851) and Joseph (1790–1837), entered after 1815 the service of the
Czar
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, who was at the same time King of Congress Poland, achieved very high positions and received titles and rights od Polish
nobility
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in 1826. The
coat of arms
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awarded to them received in accordance to the Polish custom of naming arms the name "Bosak" (
Grappling hook
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), which one member of the family, Joseph, later used as a pseudonym. John Maurice (in 1829) and Joseph (in 1830), both of them
General
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s, were elevated to the rank of
count
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s of the
Russian Empire
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. In 1861, the branch of Ludwik August followed, having obtained an
Austria
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n confirmation of the title of Count awarded to General Alexander Hauke (1814–1868), who married his
cousin
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Sophie (1816–1861), a daughter of John Maurice and sister to
Julia von Battenberg and Catarina Hauke.
The branches of John Maurice and Joseph became extinct in male line in 1852 respectively in 1949, the branch of Ludwik and Alexander still flourishes. Its descendants all live in
Stockholm
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except one, who is a
Dominican prior
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in
Poznań
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. They left Poland and settled in
Sweden
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about 1960, aided by their relative, Queen
Louise of Sweden
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.
Most of the Haukes living in Warsaw in the first half of the 19th century are buried at the
Catholic Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, those who were
Lutheran
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s or
Calvinist
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s (mostly Protestant women who married into the family) repose at the Lutheran and Calvinist Cemeteries of the Polish capital. Solely John Maurice and his wife lie in the
crypt
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of the
Capucin
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church in Warsaw's Old Town.
Known members of the family
*
John Maurice Hauke
Count Hans Johann Moritz von Hauke (John Maurice Hauke, pl, Jan Maurycy Hauke; 26 October 1775 – 29 November 1830) was a Polish general and professional soldier of German extraction. He was a member of the Hauke-Bosak family.
Life
Hans Morit ...
, General
*
Julia von Battenberg,
Princess
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*
Józef Hauke-Bosak
Count Józef Hauke-Bosak (19 March 1834 in Saint Petersburg – 21 January 1871) was a Polish general in the January Uprising, and commander of the Polish army in Lesser Poland, the closest collaborator of rebellion leader Romuald Traugutt. He ...
, General
Sources
*Stanisław Łoza, ''Rodziny polskie pochodzenia cudzoziemskiego zamieszkale w Warszawie i okolicach'', vol. 2, Warsaw 1934
*Baron Constantin Stackelberg, ''Genealogy of the Hauke Family'', Washington D.C. 1955
*''Information from Count Zygmunt de Hauke, Stockholm''
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