Heinrich Christoph Karl Herrmann, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum
Major General Heinrich Christoph Karl Herrmann | |
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| Born | January 8, 1773 |
| Died | February 7, 1830 (aged 56–57) |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Prussia |
| Conflicts | Napoleonic Wars |
Major General Heinrich Christoph Karl Herrmann, Reichsgraf[a] von Wylich und Lottum (8 January 1773 in Cleves – night of 7/8 February 1830, in Berlin) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars including the Waterloo Campaign in 1815.[1]
Notes
- ^ Regarding personal names: Reichsgraf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count of the Empire. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Reichsgräfin. Titles using the prefix Reichs- were those created before the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.
References
Sources
- Ernst Friedlaender (1884). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 19. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 284.
Further reading
- Neues Rheinisches conversations-lexicon: oder Encyclopädisches handwörterbuch für gebildete stände. Vol. 12 (3 ed.). Comptoir für kunst und literatur. 1836. pp. 715 (¶ 2)–716.
- Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Band 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, ohne Jahr, p. 230–231.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Neues preussisches Adels-Lexicon. Band 3, p. 308.