Friedrich Armand Strubberg
| Friedrich Armand Strubberg | |
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| Born |
March 18, 1806 Kassel, Hesse, Germany |
| Died | April 3, 1889 (aged 83) Altenhasslau, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Dr. Friedrich Schubbert |
| Occupation | Merchant Physiclan Author |
| Known for | Pioneer settler and author |
Friedrich Armand Strubberg (1806 –1889) was born in Germany. Strubberg spent many decades in the United States as a merchant, physician, and pioneer colonist. In Texas, he used the pseudonym Dr. Friedrich Schubbert. He designed the Vereins Kirche in Fredericksburg. Strubberg spent the last few decades of his life as an author in Germany.
The man known in Texas as Dr. Friedrich Schubbert claimed himself to be of royal descent and was born Fredèric Armand Strubberg on March 18, 1806, in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. His father was tobacco merchant Henry Frédéric Strubberg, son of Frédéric Rodolphe Strubberg and Emilie Cordesse. Henry Strubberg was a grandson of Anna Amalie and her husband Christian Friedrich Strubberg. Fredèric's assertion to be a great-great-grandson of Frederick I of Sweden bases on an alleged morganatic marriage between Frederick I and the widow of a General Count Wilmsdorf-Brevendorf in the years 1717–1720 and that Anna Amalie was an offspring of this marriage. An aristocratic family of the name Wilmsdorf-Brevendorf never existed. His mother was Frederique Elise of the Marville family. Strubberg grew up in a house of wealth and privilege, groomed for a career in the mercantile business.
Strubberg made his first voyage to the United States as a representative of the mercantile houses, stopping at Niagara Falls in 1828, and returning home to Hesse in 1829. For the next decade, Strubberg remained in Germany as an integral partner in his father's tobacco business. His return visit to the North American continent was also connected to the mercantile business and included North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Orleans and Havana.
While en route to Texas in the early 1840s, Strubberg visited Louisville, Kentucky and enrolled in a local medical school at the urging of one of the school's instructors. It was here he earned a medical degree in two years. Upon receiving his diploma, Strubberg visited Memphis, Tennessee and purchased a stallion, which he rode to Texas. Strubberg passed through Dallas and traveled down to the Rio Grande. From there, he journeyed to the Leona River into what became Uvalde County. He looked upon this area as a place to build his new life, and returned to Memphis to enlist others to help him with the new settlement. He went north east by way of San Antonio, Austin, Nacogdoches and Natchez, Mississippi, then up the Mississippi River to Memphis. When he returned to the banks of the Leona, he was accompanied by three other men, re-entering Texas from Shreveport, Louisiana and across Caddo Lake. By this point in time, he was operating under the alias of Dr. Schubbert.
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