Gustav Heinrich Schüdlöffel
Gustav Heinrich Schüdlöffel (born October 2 . Jul / 13. October 1798 greg. In Jõelähtme , † December 8 jul. / 20th December 1859 greg. In Tallinn ) was a Baltic German theologian , writer and translator .
Gustav Heinrich Schüdlöffel was inspector of the Knight and Cathedral School in Tallinn from 1826 to 1827 . From 1829 he held the office of pastor of Jõelähtme ( German Jegelecht ).
Schüdlöffel was one of the formative estophiles of his time. Above all, he exerted influence on the study of Estonian mythology . In 1836 appeared in the estophile magazine Das Inland. A weekly for Liv, Esthian and Curland history, geography, statistics and literature his article about the stories about the hero Kalevipoeg . In it he put together for the first time a cycle of Kalevipoeg legends, which he had heard "from the mouths of various national storytellers" Schüdlöffels work was an important starting point for the creation of an Estonian national epic by Friedrich Robert Fählmann a few years later.
Schüdlöffel is also the author of numerous stories in Estonian and editor of calendar literature. Schüdlöffel translated several works from German into Estonian . He made use of the modern Estonian orthography developed by Eduard Ahrens (1803–1863) for the first time . In 1844, his translation Toomas West was published as the first book in the new spelling : Lapo rahwa uso ärataja Norra maal .
literature
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature: From the Beginnings to the Present. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 183 and 228
Web links
- Life and Work (Estonian)
- Works overview (Estonian National Library - ESTER electronic catalog)
- Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gustav Heinrich Schüdlöffel. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schüdlöffel, Gustav Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German theologian, writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jõelähtme |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1859 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |