Mjertyn Moń

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Mjertyn Moń , German: Martin Moyn (born January 24, 1848 in Turnow , Niederlausitz ; † September 4, 1905 in Eisleben ), was a Lower Sorbian teacher, folklorist and linguist .

Life

The son of the farmer Hanzo Moń from Turnow bei Peitz attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cottbus until the summer of 1870 after confirmation. One of his classmates was General Bruno von Mudra, who was raised to the nobility in 1913 . He studied Classical Philology in Leipzig and from the winter semester 1872/1873 in Halle , where he passed the exam in October 1875. At the beginning of the winter semester of 1875 he began his probationary year as a scientific assistant teacher at the grammar school in Seehausen in the Altmark . Subsequently, in 1876, he accepted a position in Eisleben as the fifth full teacher at the city's high school under Julius Wilhelm Otto Richter . He remained a teacher in Eisleben for almost 30 years until he died in September 1905 at the age of 57.

His son Ernst Moyn (born September 3, 1878), who had attended the Martin Luther Gymnasium in Eisleben , was the first Eislebener to be awarded the Iron Cross 1st class with the rank of captain in a pioneer battalion during the First World War. He died on December 12, 1945 as a Colonel ret. D. and teacher .

In Turnow, the Martin-Moyn-Ring and since 2001 a plaque on the house where he was born remember him.

Scientific activity

During the holidays, Mjertyn Moń, like Arnošt Muka , hiked through Niederlausitz and kept a travel diary. He noted folkloric and linguistic features as well as critical observations of political and social circumstances. Among other things, he also documented the Lower Sorbian language in the villages around Plessa , a region that Muka thought was Germanized as early as the 1880s.

In 1880 he was one of the founders of Maśica Serbska , the Lower Lusatian offshoot of the Sorbian scientific society Maćica Serbska . In 1883 he also joined the Upper Lusatian parent company.

The Leipzig professor of Slavic Studies , August Leskien, recommended the Jablonowskische Gesellschaft as a prize question for 1886 to develop a Lower Sorbian grammar. Mjertyn Moń was one of two submitters. Despite a good rating, he was unable to prevail against the submission by Arnošt Mukas, which had been in preparation for several years, so that he received the 1,000  marks in prize money.

He had some minor publications in Casnik . Posthumously in 1907 there were two articles by Arnošt Muka in the 60th volume of Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje (ČMS), the scientific journal of Maćica Serbska. There was further discussion of his mostly handwritten estate from the time of the GDR.

Evidence and further information

Fonts

  • Ludowe pěsnje, spěwy a rěče z Turnowa a Drěnowa. In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje 60 (1907), pp. 55-73
  • Dolnoserbske rostlinske mjenja. In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje 60 (1907), pp. 122-136

literature

  • Moń, Mjertyn. In: Jan Šołta , Pětr Kunze , Franc Šěn (eds.): Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin [Bautzen] 1984. p. 392 f.
  • Moń, Mjertyn (Moyn, Martin). In: Serbski biografiski słownik. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin [Bautzen] 1970. S. 182 f.
  • E. Muka : Nekrolog LII. - Mjertyn Móń (Moyn). In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje 59 (1906), pp. 68-70 ( digitized version ).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hugo Purmann: Program of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cottbus. School year 1869–70 . With an essay by Edmund Veckenstedt . Cottbus 1870, p. 42 ( digitized in Google book search).
  2. ^ Official directory of the staff and students at the Royal United Friedrichs University Halle-Wittenberg . Hall 1873, p. 10 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Hermann Henkel: On the public examination of the grammar school in Seehausen id Altmark and on the dismissal of high school graduates on April 4th and 5th, 1876 . Seehausen id Altmark 1876, p. 16 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  4. ↑ JW Otto Richter : Seventh program of the fully authorized urban higher citizen school [five-class secondary school] to Eisleben . Eisleben 1877, p. 23 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Calendar notes for the Mansfeld-Südharz region. June 25, 2008, accessed on April 19, 2020 (Eisleber Tageblatt of January 18, 1915).
  6. ↑ Johannes Gutbier: Luther's last legacy: History of the Eisleber Luther Gymnasium and the State Luther School, 1896–1946: Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of the institution . 1958, p. 91 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Trudla Malinkowa: Spominamy . In: Pomhaj Bóh . Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin September 2005, p. 12 ( digital copy [PDF]).
  8. ↑ Erwin Koschmieder (ed.): The world of slaves . Böhlau, 1960, p. 188 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Peter Kosta : The historical grammar Arnošt Mukas and its meaning for the development of the Lower Sorbian language . In: Magdalena Norberg and Peter Kosta, Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam (ed.): Arnošt Muka - a Sorbe and universal scholar (=  Podstupimske pśinoski k Sorabistice - Potsdam contributions to Sorabistics . No. 6). Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2004, ISBN 978-3-939469-56-8 , ISSN  1615-2476 , p. 9–11 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  10. ↑ Frido Mětšk (ed.): Chrestomatija dolnoserbskego pismowstwa . tape 2 . People and Knowledge, 1956, p. 112–136 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Sonja Wölke: History of Sorbian grammar writing : From the beginnings to the end of the 19th century (=  writings of the Sorbian Institute . Volume 38 ). Domowina-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7420-1924-4 , pp. 134 ff .

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SURNAME Moń, Mjertyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moyn, Martin (German name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Sorbian teacher, folklorist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Turnow , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1905
Place of death Eisleben