Anton Strauss
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| Born | 1858 Kiev, Russia |
| Died | ? |
| Nationality | Russian-German |
| Parent(s) | Strauss Emil Christian Dietrich and Wiesel Fanny Elizabeth |
Anton Strauss (1858, Kamianka - ?) – mining engineer, inventor, partner of the famous architect Vladislav Gorodetsky, an entrepreneur, Kiev Yacht Club commodore, actual state councilor.
Anton Strauss descended from a German noble family.
Father – Emil Christian Dietrich Strauss was born in Witzenhausen (Hessen, Germany) in 1829 to the parents of Herman Karl Strauss and Sofie Badenhausen. Emil Strauss graduated as a doctor of medicine and a surgeon from the University of Göttingen. As a medical doctor he participated in the Crimean and in the Caucasian Wars on the side of Russian Empire and was awarded with the Order of St. Anna (3rd Class).
Mother – Fanny Elizabeth Wiesel is a daughter of a medical doctor Bernhard Lorenz Wiesel (Poltava Governorate) and Rosalie Caroline Maier.
Brother – Oscar Strauss was born in 1858. Oscar Strauss was a physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and an entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of the company “Savitsky and Strauss” which launched the first power plant in Kiev in 1890. He was also a shareholder of cable and gunpowder factories, a tobacco factory in Kiev and a lumber mill in Chernigov. Oscar published memoirs about Russian physicist Alexander Popov, who was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic radio waves.
Cousin – Oscar Wiesel was born in Russia in 1864. He graduated as a lawyer and worked in Germany, Spitsbergen, and Switzerland as a Russian consul. Wiesel later served as a general consul in Italy (Napoli) in rank of actual state councilor.
Cousin – Emil Anton Joseph Wiesel (1 March 1866, Saint Petersburg – 2 May 1943, Leningrad) – a painter, museum curator and a board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (Russia), organizer of international art exhibitions, councilor of Hermitage and Russian museum and Legion of Honor holder. During Soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka museum department (central administrative board of science, science-artistic and museum institutions).
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