Otto Wilhelm Masing
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Otto Wilhelm Masing (8 November [
' rights, especially regarding education.Life
Masing was born in 1763 in the village of
Masing received schooling at the town school of
In 1796, Masing married Dorothea Amalie Ehlertz (1776–1809) in Tartu (Dorpat),[1] a daughter of the city councillor Carl Ulrich Ehlertz (1739–1790) [2] and his wife Louisa Dorothea née Stockenberg (1755–1803), a great-granddaughter of the sculptor Johann Gustav Stockenberg.
Work
Masing's first employment after concluding his studies was as private tutor at the manor in Püssi (Neu-Isenhof) for the children of the nobleman Otto Magnus von Toll.
In 1788, he became the pastor of the Lutheran church in Lüganuse (Luggenhusen), and then served from 1795 in Viru-Nigula (Maholm), and from 1815 in Äksi (Ecks), where he remained as pastor until his death.[3]
From 1818 he also took on the post of assessor of the consistory of Livonia and from 1821 onwards he was also Provost for Tartu.
Contributions as publicist and linguist
In 1795, Masing compiled and published a children's textbook for learning reading, the
In 1821–1823, and in 1825, Masing published a newspaper Marahwa Näddala-Leht (Estonian for Land People's Weekly), one of the earliest periodical publications in the Estonian language.
Among other linguistic contributions, Masing is credited with creating the letter 'õ' to denote an Estonian phoneme not found in other related languages.[4]
Honours
- Imperial Russian Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class (awarded 1821) [5][6]
External links
References
- ^ Entry in the Register of Marriages of the Parish of St. John (Estonian: Tartu Jaani kogudus)
- ^ von Lemm, Robert Arthur (1960), Dorpater Ratslinie 1319-1889 und das Dorpater Stadtamt 1878-1918, Marburg/Lahn: Herder-Inst.
- ^ "Eesti monumentide e-kataloog - Viru-Nigula Otto Wilhelm Masing".
- ^ "Kuidas tuli õ-täht eesti kirjakeelde?".
- ISBN 9789949317660
- hdl:10062/17510