August Franz Globensky
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August Franz Globensky (or Glaubenskindt) (January 1, 1754 – April 19, 1830) was surgeon who served in the Hessian company of Major Hermann Albrecht von Francken during the American Revolutionary War. After the war his company was disbanded, and rather than return to Europe, he settled in Verchères, Quebec. He married there Francoise Brousseau and had sixteen children. His grandson Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky was elected from Two Mountains to the Canadian House of Commons in 1875.
[edit] Surname
He was born near Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia to Joseph Glaubenskindt, a royal notary originally from Poland, and Marie Richter, a German. He used the surname Glaubenskindt on his baptismal certificate and on an army enrollment register. As Glaubenskindt is not normally used as a surname in Germany, it is likely Joseph acquired this sobriquet from a poetic Germanicization of Głowiński, a common Polish surname. August Franz only used the name Globensky after his migration to Canada. He is the common ancestor of all people surnamed Globensky in the United States and Canada today.
[edit] References
- Globensky, Yvon, Historie de la Famille Globensky. Montreal, Quebec: Les Editions du Fleuve, 1991. ISBN 2-89372-029-3.
