Totleben Explained

Totleben, Russian: Тотле́бен
Meaning:	from Tottleben, Thuringia
Region:	Tottleben, Thuringia
Language origin:	Middle German
Variant:	Von Tottleben

The Totleben (Tottleben) family is a German-Baltic noble family with its origins in Gera, Thuringia, Germany. Members of the family occupied important positions in the Duchy of Courland and later throughout the Russian Empire. On 9 October 1879 they were granted the title of Count in Russia.

Notable members

• Count Gottlieb (Curt) Heinrich Totleben, Lord at Tottleben, Zeippau and Hausdorf im Saganschen (German: Gottlob Heinrich Graf von Tottleben, Herr auf Tottleben, Zeippau und Hausdorf im Saganschen; 1715, Tottleben – 1773), Saxony-born Russian general
• Count Eduard Totleben (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен; 1818, Jelgava – 1884), Russian general
• John Totleben (born 1958, Erie, Pennsylvania), American illustrator

See also

• Totleben (Bulgarian: Тотлебен), a village in Pleven Province, Bulgaria, named after Eduard Totleben