Eduard Ahrens

Eduard Ahrens ( Russian Эдуард Ааренс ; born March 10 ^{. Jul} / 22. March 1803 ^greg. In Tallinn , † January 26 ^jul. / 7. February 1863 ^greg. Ibid.) Was a Baltic German linguist and clergyman .

Life

family

Eduard was a son of the district auditor Johann Hartwig Ahrens and Christiane, nee Schneider. He married Rosalie Salzmann.

Career

Ahrens attended the cathedral school in Reval from 1811 . From 1820 to 1823 he studied theology in Dorpat . He toured Germany and France from 1832 to 1833, graduated in 1834 and entertained himself as a tutor for the entire period from 1823 to 1835 . Ahrens was then pastor in Kusal from 1837 to 1863 and provost of East Harrien from 1860 .

Ahrens has done a great job of researching the Estonian language . He introduced the new Estonian orthography based on the Finnish model . In 1842 he was a member of the Estonian Literary Society in Reval and in 1845 a corresponding member of the Finnish Literary Society in Helsingfors and honorary member of the Estonian Scholarly Society in Dorpat . In 1854 he was honored with the Demidov Prize of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

Works

Johann Hornung , the creator of our Estonian church language , 1845 ( digitized from the University of Tartu )
Speech errors in the Estonian Bible , 1853 ( digitized version of the University of Tartu)

Grammar of the Estonian language Reval dialect , 1853 ( digitized from the University of Tartu)

He also published several articles in Germany between 1844 and 1859 .

literature

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Eduard Ahrens. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Web links

Commons : Eduard Ahrens - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ According to BBLD (lit.), according to Estonian information, however, in Kusal , which is not without plausibility.
^ Arnold Hasselblatt , Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 102.

personal data
SURNAME	Ahrens, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ааренс, Эдуард (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic linguist and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1863
Place of death	Reval

[1] According to BBLD (lit.), according to Estonian information, however, in Kusal , which is not without plausibility.

[2] Arnold Hasselblatt , Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 102.