Ernst Gottlieb Glück

Ernst Gottlieb Glück (; about 1698 – ) was a Russian statesman of German descent.

Biography The house of Pastor Johann Ernst Glück in Marienburg (the birthplace of Ernst Gottlieb Glück) is now a national museum.

He was born in Marienburg (present-day Alūksne, Latvia). 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 (died 1740), belonged to the Livonian nobility. As a child, he received his education at home. From 1716, he lived in Prussia and studied law at the University of Königsberg.

In 1725, by order of Empress Catherine I of Russia, he was employed as an assessor in the , which was renamed several times during his career: from 23 November 1739 – the Livonian and Estonian Affairs Collegium; from 8 February 1742 – the Justice Collegium of the Livonian and Estonian Affairs; from 15 December 1763 – the Justice Collegium of the Livonian, Estonian and Finnish Affairs. Ernst Gottlieb Glück, like many officials of this Collegium, belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

In 1781, the Senate passed a resolution about Ernst Gottlieb Glück's diploma to the nobility and his coat of arms: "15 March 1745 it is ordered to offer a diploma made by Glück for the signing of Her Majesty, when she will be in the Senate. And as the diploma is not used at present time, give it to the Archive”. By that time, Glück had been already dead for 14 years.

Private life Ernst Gottlieb Glück was married twice. His first wife's name is unknown. He then married Charlotte Julia von Taube von ter Issen (18 April 1742). The children from the second marriage were Carl Friedrich (born 16 February 1754 and probably died that date) and Eleanor (1764 — 27 May 1816, married to Christian Leopold von Vildeman, who was a great-nephew of Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich.