Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Russwurm

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm , owner: Carl Rußwurm , also: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (born November 25, 1812 in Domhof Ratzeburg ; † February 5, ^July / February 17, 1883 ^greg. In Reval ) was a German-Estonian pedagogue, ethnologist and historians.

life and work

Carl Rußwurm came from a family of theologians and educators. His father Johann Georg Rußwurm (1781–1848) was the rector of the cathedral school at the Ratzeburg Cathedral at the time of his birth and later the pastor of the St. Marien Church (Selmsdorf) , his uncle Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm was a pastor in Herrnburg . His younger brother Johannes (1814–1890) later became provost of the cathedral in Ratzeburg.

After attending the cathedral school, he studied theology in Bonn and Berlin . In 1831 he became a member of the Populonia Bonn fraternity and in 1832 a member of the Kränzchenverein Berlin . In order to avoid investigations by the authorities because of his participation in the fraternity, he went to Estonia in 1835, initially as a private teacher . Here he was appointed inspector of the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval in 1839 . In 1841 he moved to the health resort of Hapsal , where he initially worked as a teacher and later as an inspector of the local district school. After his retirement in 1868 he worked on scientific work and returned to Reval, where he held the position of archivist at the Estonian knight chancellery. He dealt mainly with Estonian cultural history and ethnography and the genealogy of German-Baltic families. In Hapsal, his most important work, Eibofolke, or the Swedes on the Esthland coast and on Runö , was created through research into the local residents of Swedish origin , for which he received the prestigious Demidow Prize .

Works

Nordic legends. Narrated to the German youth and provided with a scientific appendix. Leipzig: Butcher 1842
Eibofolke or the Swedes on the Esthland coast and on Runö , an ethnographic study with documents, topography and history, Erser Theil , Reval 1855
Eibofolke or the Swedes on the Esthland coast and on Runo, an ethnographic study with documents, tables and lithographed supplements, Part Two , Reval 1855 E-Text
History of Alt-Pernau. Reval 1880
News about the Ungern-Sternberg family. Reval 1872-1875
News about the noble and baronial family Stael von Holstein of the Estonian line.
Genealogia Lutherorum rediviva or the Luther family in Esthland and Russia. (posthumous) Reval 1883.

literature

Nottbeck: Rußwurm, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 19 f.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 149-150.
Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1097 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Back then to Mecklenburg-Strelitz belonging
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 149.

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personal data
SURNAME	Sootworm, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rußwurm, Carl (real name); Rußwurm, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (von)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic pedagogue and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 17, 1883
Place of death	Reval

[1] Back then to Mecklenburg-Strelitz belonging

[2] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 149.