Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg

Maréchal de camp Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (30 April 1784 – 19 September 1838) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the French conquest of Algeria.

Family

Born on 30 April 1784 in Saint Stephen's Church near Strasbourg, he is the son of Alexis Balthazar Henri Schauenburg (1748-1831) and Sophie Louise Albertini d'Ichtersheim.

Before 1825 he married Octavia Françoise Caroline de Berckheim who died in 1827, then he remarried in 1829 with Ursule Hortense Delorme (1799-1871), of whom he had an only son Pierre Maximilien Arthur Schauenburg.

Publications

Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg wrote several contributions in the military field, including:

• Translation from German in 1821 of the work "Tactics of the cavalry" () by Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck (1783–1860).
• "From the Company Squadron" () on 12 February 1835 and published in the magazine "Le Spectateur Militaire".
• "Clothing and harness of the light cavalry" () on 6 November 1834 and published in the magazine "Le Spectateur Militaire".
• "From the employment of the cavalry to war" (), Gaultier-Laguionie, 1838, 128 p.

Awards

Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg was decorated with several medals during his military career, including:

• Knight of the Order of Saint Louis.
• Officer of the Legion of Honour.

See also

• List of people from Strasbourg
• French conquest of Algeria
• Massacre of El Ouffia (1832)
• Raid on Reghaïa (1837)
• Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha (1837)
• First Battle of Boudouaou (1837)
• First Battle of the Issers (1837)

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