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Limmer, Karl August

Karl August Limmer, son of Johann Gottlob Limmer & Johanna Magdalena Sophie Reinecker, was born 17 May 1765 in Plauen and died 16 September 1853 in Gera, Germany.

He married Margarethe Claudine Lampe who had been brn in 1776 and died 5 December 1857.

Pastor Limmer studied theology in Leipzig. He had also studied history and served from 1797 to 1809 as a teacher in Brisen, Saucken, Schujenpahlen, Riga, and St. Petersburg.

Liebham, Georg

Father Liebham was born in 1845 in Landau, and died 31 December 1910 in Schönchen. He was ordained on 11 June 1867. From 1867 to 1869 he served in Landau. He also served in the parish of Wittmann.

Lezius, Hermann Arnold

Hermann Arnold Lezius, son of Pastor Andreas Friedrich Lezius & Maria Bidder, was born 31 March 1863 in Nüggen, Livonia (Baltics).  He studied theology from 1880-1886 at the University of Dorpat (Estonia) and was ordained on 15 February 1887 in Arensburg.

On 28 July 1887 in Reval, he married to Beate Emilie Boustedt (born 7 April 1865 in Kertel; died on 28 March 1924 in Pölwe).

Lesta, Adalbert Gustav Michael

Adalbert Gustav Michael Lesta, son of Gustav Lesta & Minna Pallon, was born 20 November 1869 in Dorpat, Estonia. He studied theology from 1888-1895 at the University of Dorpat (Estonia) and was ordained on 15 December 1896 in Moscow.

He served his vicarship in Yagodnaya Polyana (1896-1897) and later served the parishes in Samara (1897-1904), Tobolks (1904-1909), Tomsk & Barnaul (1909-1914), and Vladivostok (1914-1922).

Lenin, Vladimir

Many sources incorrectly identify Vladimir Lenin as a descendant of Volga Germans. He was indeed born while his parents, originally from St. Petersburg, were living in Simbirsk, a city on the Volga River about 300 kilometers north of Saratov. He also has several German ancestors with surnames that are the same as those of Volga German colonists (most notably Blank and Grosskopf). With these facts in evidence, early Soviet journalists, attempting to trace the background of the Bolshevik leader, surmised that he must have been of Volga German descent.