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Carl Wilhelm von Heideck (Greek: Κάρολος φον Χέυδεκ, born in Sarralbe, Moselle, on 6 December 1788 – died in Munich on 21 February 1861) was a Bavarian military officer, a philhellene and painter.

Biography

Von Heideck studied art in Zürich. In 1801, he entered the military academy in Munich. Since 1805 he was in the Bavarian army, taking part in campaigns in Austria, Prussia and Tyrol, and then in Spain after 1810.

In 1814, with the rank of major, he accompanied the crown prince and future Ludwig I of Bavaria to the Congress of Vienna.

In 1826, he went to help the Greeks fight for their independence against the Ottoman Empire, during the Greek War of Independence.

In 1827, he took part under the orders of Thomas Gordon to the attempt to help the Acropolis of Athens. In June of the same year he bought three ancient Greek statues, including the Nike of Megara, just a month after the Provision of the Third National Assembly at Troezen that explicitly banned the sale and export of antiquities; thus he was not able to get the three statues out of the country.

In 1828, Ioannis Kapodistrias named him commander of Nafplion and a few months later military governor of Argos.

In 1830, he went back to Munich and got back his rank of colonel of the Bavarian army. He started again to paint.

In 1832, when Otto the second son of Ludwig I of Bavaria was designated to become king of Greece, Heideck was nominated to the regency council. It is traced, that he lived at Kasern Straße 12 (today Leonrodstraße) in Munich around 1850. The Heideckstraße in the quarter Neuhausen of Munich is named after him.

Notes and references

1. In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means 'of' or 'from' and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by their last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.
2. Tsouli, Chrysanthi (2021). "Chronicle of a journey. The Nike of Megara at the National Archaeological Museum". In Maria Lagogianni-Georgakarakos (ed.). Known and Unknown Nikai. Athens, Greece: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. p. 305. ISBN 978-960-386-512-4.
3. Leonrodstraße, City of Munich.
4. Paul Maucher: Alphabetic register of house owners 1849–1851 Archived 2009-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, p. 21.
5. Die Königlich-Bayerische Armee im westlichen Straßenbild Archived 2017-06-16 at the Wayback Machine (German), Taxi-Kurier, April 2007, p. 37

v t e Greece during the reign of Otto (1832–1862)
Capital	Nafplio (1832–34) Athens (1834–present)
Monarchs	Otto of Greece Amalia of Oldenburg
Regency Council	Karl von Abel Josef Ludwig von Armansperg Johann Baptist Greiner Carl Wilhelm von Heideck Georg Ludwig von Maurer Ignaz von Rudhart
Prime Ministers	Bavarians: Josef Ludwig von Armansperg Ignaz von Rudhart Greeks: Konstantinos Kanaris Ioannis Kolettis Ioannis Kolokotronis Georgios Kountouriotis Antonios Kriezis Alexandros Mavrokordatos Andreas Metaxas Athanasios Miaoulis Spyridon Trikoupis Kitsos Tzavelas Dimitrios Voulgaris
Architects	Eduard Schaubert Friedrich von Gärtner Christian Hansen Theophil Hansen Panagis Kalkos Stamatios Kleanthis Leo von Klenze Lysandros Kaftanzoglou
Notable People	Jane Digby Aristeidis Dosios Theoklitos Farmakidis Herr Fuchs Dimitrios Kallergis Theodoros Kolokotronis Yiannis Makriyiannis Anastasios Polyzoidis
Early Greek Parties	English Party French Party Russian Party
Events	London Conference of 1832 Trial of Kolokotronis Philorthodox Conspiracy Cretan Revolt (1841) 3 September 1843 Revolution Greek Constitution of 1844 Don Pacifico affair Crimean War (Siege of Sevastopol, Battle of Eupatoria) Epirus Revolt of 1854 Thessaly Revolt of 1854 23 October 1862 Revolution
Influence	Greek legal system Greek academic art of the 19th century Party of Radicals
Structures	National Gardens of Athens Old Royal Palace National Observatory of Athens Syntagma Square Old Parliament House, Athens
Institutions	Athens School of Fine Arts Archaeological Society of Athens Bavarian Auxiliary Corps Church of Greece Council of State Court of Audit Court of Cassation Greek Archaeological Service Greek Evangelical Church Greek Volunteer Legion Hellenic Gendarmerie National and Kapodistrian University of Athens National Bank of Greece National Library of Greece National Technical University of Athens Regency Council Royal Phalanx
Other	Fix Brewery Greek Crown Jewels Lion of the Bavarians

• History of Greece (1832–1862)
• 1788 births
• 1861 deaths
• 19th-century regents of Greece
• People from Moselle (department)
• Military personnel of Bavaria
• Bavarian generals
• 19th-century German painters
• 19th-century German male artists
• German male painters
• German philhellenes in the Greek War of Independence
• Naturalized citizens of Greece
• Hellenic Army officers
• German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars