The Schoeppingk family (german: Freiherren op dem Hamme genannt von Schoeppingk) is a Baltic-German noble family, which also belonged to the

Russian nobility The Russian nobility (russian: дворянство ''dvoryanstvo'') originated in the 14th century. In 1914 it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members (about 1.1% of the population) in the Russian Empire. Up until the February Revolution ...

History

The Schoeppingk family lived in

Westphalia Westphalia (; german: Westfalen ; nds, Westfalen ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants. The territory of the regio ...

the 13th century, migrated in the 15th century to

Courland Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ...

, and on 17 October 1620, were included in the list of Courland nobility. In 1818 the head of the family was created

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of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

Notable members

* Ernst Dietrich Freiherr op dem Hamme genannt Schoeppingk (Dmitry) - after Courland became part of the Russian empire, was appointed to the Privy Council. * Magnus Friedrich Freiherr op dem Hamme genannt Schoeppingk - (Fyodor Dmitryevich; d. 1855) - Privy Councillor * Otto Friedrich Freiherr op dem Hamme genannt Schoeppingk (1790—1874) - Major-General. * Baron Dmitry Ottovich Shepping (1823—1895) - Russian historian, archaeologist, ethnographer * Juliane Anna Elisabeth Gräfin von der Pahlen, born Freiin op dem Hamme genannt Schoeppingk (1751—1814) - wife of

Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen Peter Ludwig Graf von der Pahlen (russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Па́лен, translit= Pyotr Alekseyevich Palen; , Palms Manor, Palms (now ) – , Mitau (now )), a Baltic-German courtier and general, played a pivotal role in the a ...

References

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