Toll (noble family)
His son Lucas was the main ancestor of the Toll family, he was a student at the University of Wittenberg, which later he became a writer and went to Denmark, he also became an officer under Duke Magnus of Holstein.
After the Bishoprics of Ösel–Wiek and Courland was sold to Frederick II of Denmark and Duke Magnus became the king of the newly established Kingdom of Livonia, Toll followed him and received a number of land there.
While younger brother Robert was a military officer in the Imperial Russian Army, a landlord and historian in Baltic German history.
Together with Friedrich Georg von Bunge and a number of Baltic German historians, he was best remembered as one of the authors of the Est- und livländische Brieflade [et], a four-part historical source about the timeline and history of Estonia and Livonia.
[11] Robert's son Harald Alexander Christian von Toll (1848-1909) was a city councilor and secretary to the head of the nobility.
The most famous member of this line was the explorer and geologist Eduard Gustav von Toll (1858-1902), he gained fame for exploring the Northern Atlantic, Arctic Ocean, Siberia and the most famous Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902 of the legendary Sannikov Land, he was lost during that expedition and was never heard from since.
One such descendant was his grandson Sergei Alexandrovich Tol (1848-1923), the civil governor of St. Petersburg for 14 years from 1889 to 1903 and premier master of the hunt.
In 1741, Ebbe Ludwig von Toll (1722-1810), landowner and heir to the Arromois and Paunküll Manors was matriculated into the Oeselian Knighthood.
