Ludwig von Hagemeister

Ludwig von Hagemeister
2nd Governor of Russian America
In office
11 January 1818 – 24 October 1818
Preceded byAlexander Andreyevich Baranov
Succeeded bySemyon Yanovsky
Personal details
Born16 June [O.S. 5] 1780
Drostenhof, Kreis Wenden, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died3 January [O.S. 22 December 1833] 1834 (aged 53)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
NationalityBaltic German
Coat of arms of the Hagemeister family [de] of 1692, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[1]

Ludwig Karl August von Hagemeister (Russian: Лео́нтий Андриа́нович Гагеме́йстер; Leontij Andrianovic Gagemejster;[2] 16 June [O.S. 5] 1780 – 3 January [O.S. 22 December 1833] 1834) was a Russian naval officer who held the rank of Captain of the 1st rank in the Imperial Russian Navy. He was a maritime explorer of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean, and served briefly in 1817-1818 as the second Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company.

  1. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor (1882). Baltisches Wappenbuch. Stockholm. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-543-98710-5. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  2. ^ Baltic, Alix. The Baltic Connection in Russian America. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge 42, No. 3 (1994), pp. 321-339.