Kōrli Stalte

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Kōrli Stalte ( Latvian : Kārlis Stalte; born August 10, 1870 in Mazirbe near Dundaga ; † January 12, 1947 in Germany) was a teacher , sexton , organist , poet and essayist from Courland . He was a social and cultural activist .

Life

Kōrli Stalte attended high school in Riga . He then worked as an employee in Riga and Liepāja , as a teacher in Dundaga and Mazirbe, as a language teacher in Lielirbe and as an organist, cantor and sexton in Mazirbe. In 1922 he founded the Liv folk choir . He was the first chairman of the Livian Association founded in 1923 ( Liv : Līvõd Īd , Latvian: Līvu Savienība ) and its secretary until 1940. From 1933 to 1939 he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Līvli".

When the resettlement of the Baltic Germans was ordered in 1939 because of the provisions of the German-Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty , Stalte moved to Germany in 1940 with his wife, who was of German-Baltic origin.

Literary activity

Kōrli Stalte began his literary activity in 1919. With the support of academic and church organizations in Finland and Estonia, poems by Liv poets, including von Stalte, have been published. In 1924 his first collection of poems was published in Tallinn : Livõd lōlõd . It has 24 pages and contains 28 poems. Stalte is also the first author of a textbook on the Livonian language.

Together with Lauri Kettunen , Stalte worked on the largest dictionary of the Liv language. His works also include a translation of the New Testament .

Stalte wrote the Livonian text of the Livonian national anthem " Min izāmō " ("My Fatherland") on the melody of Fredrik Pacius , which is also the basis of the Finnish and Estonian national anthems.

Kōrli Stalte's daughter Margareta Stalte set several of her father's poems to music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigurds Rusmanis, Ivars Vīks: Kurzeme . Izdevniecība Latvijas Enciklopēdija, Riga 1993, ISBN 5-89960-030-6 , p. 126 (Latvian).
  2. ↑ Tenu Karma: Lībieši . In: Sigurds Rusmanis, Ivars Vīks (eds.): Kurzeme un kurznieki . Izdevniecība Latvijas Enciklopēdija, Rīga 1995, ISBN 5-89960-077-2 , pp. 76–83, here p. 78.
  3. ↑ Lauri Kettunen: Livian dictionary with grammatical introduction. Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae. Vol. 5. Helsinki 1938.
  4. ↑ Tenu Karma: Lībieši . In: Sigurds Rusmanis, Ivars Vīks (eds.): Kurzeme un kurznieki . Izdevniecība Latvijas Enciklopēdija, Rīga 1995, ISBN 5-89960-077-2 , pp. 76–83, here p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Stalte, Kōrli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stalte, Körli; Stalte, Kārlis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Livian teacher, sexton, organist, poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Mazirbe near Dundaga
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1947
Place of death Germany