Ungern-Sternberg

Baltic German noble family
Original arms of the Ungern-Sternberg family
The comital arms

The Ungern-Sternberg family or von Ungern-Sternberg is an old and influential Baltic-German nobility, with branches belonging to the German, Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobility.

Notable members

  • Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg (1689–1763), lantmarskalk at the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates (1742, 1746)
  • Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg (1769–1846), wife of Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky
  • Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg (1806–1869), Baltic German novelist, poet and painter
  • Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), Russian general, White Movement warlord
  • Erich von Ungern-Sternberg (1910–1989), Finnish architect[1]
  • Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern-Sternberg
  • Michael Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg [de], German Diplomat, former ambassador to Iran and Indonesia

Patron of the University of Latvia

Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg is a silver patron of the University of Latvia Foundation. He has supported the University of Latvia since 1999 by donating to establish a scholarship in memory of his grandfather Bernhard Holander. It will be awarded to the best doctor or master of the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Latvia.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Erich von Ungern-Sternberg" (in Finnish). Museum of Finnish Architecture. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  2. ^ "Jirgens fon Ungerns-Šternbergs". www.fonds.lv (in Latvian).

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