Christian von Ehrenfels
Christian von Ehrenfels was born on 20 June 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wien.
Christian Ignatius Borissow
Christian Ignatius, not yet Borissow, was born in Hamina, a Finnish and Swedish speaking small coastal city, which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire, as the fifth of ten children of chaplain Bengt Jacob Ignatius (1746–1803), a minister of the Lutheran Church in the fifth generation, and his wife Katharina Elfvengren (1759–1803). The family soon moved to Ruokolahti, a small Finnish-speaking rural parish in Russian-governed Southeastern Finland, where the father held the vicar’s office from 1790 until his death in 1803. After the death of his parents Christian had to quit his secondary school education. Soon after this he moved to Saint Petersburg, the fast-growing capital of the Russian empire, and was employed there as a merchant. From there he emigrated to Great Britain probably in late 1810s. He was married in Bristol, England, in 1819 and had published his first book "The Commerce of St. Petersburg" in the same year. He also functioned as a Consul of the Russian Empire in Bristol. At this time he had already adopted his new Russian-type surname Borissow.