Maximilian Põdder

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Maximilian Podder (* June 19 . Jul / 1. July  1852 greg. In Roika, then parish Kolga-Jaani , Livonia ; † October 2 jul. / October 15, 1905 greg. In Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer and translator .

life and work

Maximilian Moritz Põdder was born into the family of a school teacher near the southern Estonian village of Odiste ( Viljandi district ). He went to school in Tartu from 1867 to 1873 . Põdder studied from 1873 to 1876 at the University of Tartu , first theology , then medicine , but without obtaining a formal degree. He then worked as a private tutor.

Põdder discovered a journalistic and writing inclination early on . He worked closely with the Estonian newspapers of his time, especially in the years 1886 to 1896 with Postimees , Oma Maa and Sakala . He also worked as an educator at the renowned Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu and at a private school in Tallinn.

His stories are committed to the age of the Estonians' national awakening, but also point beyond it. They only appeared in newspapers during their lifetime. His most important work, the only longer short story Bob Ellerhein from 1884 (published as a book only posthumously in 1911) deals with the life of an Estonian intellectual facing the political and social challenges of the time. In 1888 he received a prize from the Estonian Literary Society .

In addition, Maximilian Põdder was one of the most productive translators of his time into Estonian . He was involved in the translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace . He translated from the German Theodor Hermann Pantenius , from the Low German Fritz Reuter , from the Norwegian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and from the French among other things Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea .

He also published a Russian grammar (1884) and a German-Estonian dictionary (1906).

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 322f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?CatID=102&ItemID=4098
  2. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 386
personal data
SURNAME Põdder, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Põdder, Moritz Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Rõika, then Kolga-Jaani parish , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1905
Place of death Tallinn