Joseph Carl von Anrep (russian: Иосиф Романович Анреп; ''Iosif Romanovich Anrep-Elmpt''; 1796 – 28 June 1860) was a

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 ...

general during the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

. He was a member of the Russian branch of the

Anrep family The House of Anrep is a Baltic German family, belonging to Swedish and Russian nobility. History The family originates from Anreppen, a village on Lippe river in Westfalia, Germany (now a part of Delbrück town). In 15th century Anreps, belongin ...

, the son of Heinrich Reinhold von Anrep, a general of the Russian cavalry during the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

Biography

Anrep married Cecelia Julie Philippine Elmpt.

Leonhard von Stryk Leonhard Gottlieb Karl von Stryk (3 February 1834 – 1882) was a Baltic German historian and author. Biography He was born on 3 February 1834 in Livonia to Wilhelm von Stryk (1803-?) and Eleonora von Mensenkampff (1798–1876). He studied law ...

(1877) ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Rittergüter Livlands'' C. Mattiesen, Dorpat, Germany (now Tartu, Estonia), Volume 1, page 354, , in German On 6 May 1853, by edict of the Tzar, he was styled Count Anrep-Elmpt in order to preserve the title of his wife's grandfather, Count von Elmpt, who had no other heir. At the start of the Crimean War, Anrep was a colonel in Russian army, but he was quickly promoted to general. He commanded the Russian troops at the

siege of Calafat The siege of Calafat took place in 1854 during the Crimean War. The Russians unsuccessfully besieged the Ottoman army at this place for four months before finally withdrawing. In July 1853, the Russian army invaded the Principality of Wallachi ...

.Jaques, Tony (2007) ''Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A guide to 8,500 battles from antiquity through the twenty-first century: A-E'' Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, Volume 1, page 184 Anrep died in 1860. He was the owner of Kärstna manor in present-day

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. His son,

Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt Reinhold Philipp Johann Graf von Anrep-Elmpt (30 January 1834 – 26 August 1888) was a Baltic German officer in Russian service, and an explorer. Life and work Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt of the Anrep family was born in Kursk in the Russian ...

, was an explorer.

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Imperial Russian Army generals Russian military personnel of the Crimean War Russian nobility 1796 births 1860 deaths {{Russia-mil-bio-stub