Karl August Rudolf (von Oppen) von Oppen-Schilden (1792 - 1872)

Born 19 Jan 1792 in Weimar, Herzogtum Sachsen-Weimar, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Rosalie (Friccius von Schilden) von Oppen-Schilden — married Feb 1819 in København, Denmark

Descendants

Died 5 Nov 1872 at age 80 in Haseldorf, Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, Preußen, Deutsches Reich

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Biography

Karl August Rudolf von Oppen-Schilden was born on January 19, 1792, in Weimar, Saxony and died on November 5, 1872, in Haseldorf, Denmark. He was the son of Adolf Friedrich von Oppen and Katharina (von Faggyas) von Oppen.

Karl von Oppen-Schilden, who served as an adjutant to his father, was a Major in the Royal Prussian Army and a Gentleman of the Chamber to the King of Denmark. He was the owner of Alt-Gatersleben and a Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

On December 25, 1833, he received permission from Friedrich VI, King of Denmark to use the name “von Oppen-Schilden.”

He married Rosalie Friccius von Schilden, the daughter of Friedrich Christian Friccius von Schilden and Louisa Maria Henriette von Rantzau, in February, 1819, in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was born on September 16, 1786, in Itzehoe, Denmark and died on February 27, 1864, in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

Sources

• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, Neues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon (Leipzig: Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung; 1865), vol. 6, p. 608.

• Dietrich von Oppen, Lebensskizzen aus der Familie von Oppen vornehmlich im 20. Jahrhundert (Marburg/Lahn: Von Oppen, 1985), p. 560.

See also:

• "Schilden" (August 19, 2022), in Wikipedia, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schilden.