Ernst Gottlieb Glück

His father, Johann Ernst Glück (1652—1705), was a German Lutheran theologian, pastor, teacher and also known for translating the Bible into the Latvian and Russian languages; his mother, Christian Emerentia von Reutern (?—1740), belonged to the Livonian nobility.

The Justice Collegium of the Livonian and Estonian Affairs was in charge of administrative affairs (the appointment of officials, the correspondence with imperial institutions): the court (processing of complaints on the wrong actions of the local administration and appeals against class courts` decisions and sentences); taxes (in 1739—1742); church problems of the Baltic population and Vyborgskaya province population, the Protestant Church in the Russian Empire (marriage, divorce, pastors` appointment and dismissal, disputes between the parishioners and the clergy, the maintenance of church service, establishing holidays).

The peculiarity of the Collegium of the Livonian and Estonian Affairs was its activity guided by the local (mostly Swedish) legislation of the 15th — the beginning of 18th centuries and the church (canon) law but not the Russian (Imperial) legal system.

[4] Since 1754 some Russian researchers have called Ernst Gottlieb Glück the Vice-president of the Justice Collegium of the Livonian and Estonian Affairs.

[1] D. Raskin also called Emme F. the Vice-president of the Justice Collegium of the Livonian and Estonian Affairs in 1741—1764 and Klingstedt T. in 1764—1771 but did not mention Ernst Gottlieb Glück.