Otto Moritz von Grünewaldt
Otto Moritz von Grünewaldt ( December 4, 1860 in Saint Petersburg ; † June 20, 1936 in Hapsal , Estonia ) was a German-Baltic writer and farmer .
Life
Otto Moritz von Grünewaldt spent his childhood in Saint Petersburg and was then brought up together with his cousins Adolph von Gernet and Ferdinand Wrangel on the Sellenküll estate near Oru , Estonia. Otto Moritz attended from 1876 to 1881, the Knight and Cathedral School to Reval , he studied from 1881 at the University of Tartu and occupied from 1881 to 1883, the study of economics and from 1883 to 1886, the trade law . He served as a volunteer in the Grodnos Hussar Guard Regiment in Warsaw . As an ensign in the reserve, he left the army and devoted himself to agriculture in Audern . From 1891 to 1902 he was estate manager in Waetz . He also took over the Haakhof as administrator in 1908 and became its owner in 1908; the Haakhof remained in the possession of the Grünewaldts until 1918. After the expropriation of property, Otto Moritz lived on a small plot of land at Haakhof from 1922 , and from 1926 worked as a writer in Hapsal.
Works
His works include:
- Memories. With a foreword by Baron M. Wrangell, 2 volumes, Reval, 1927–1928. Volume 1: Childhood Paradise and Cathedral School 1860–1881; Volume 2: Student days 1881–1886)
- Life memories. Part I. Hannover-Döhren 1977 (Baltic memories and biographies; Part II. Hilden 2003
- Songs. Texts to songs by W. Wrangell sung by G. Grünewald-Tatter, editor of the Wierland-German Cultural Curatorium, Reval 1929
- Christmas holidays. In: Hirschheydt 2000, pp. 43-50.
- Editor of: Four Sons of One House. Pictures of time and life from Estonia's past. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1900 abebooks.com
Origin and family
Otto Moritz came from the German-Baltic noble family Grünewaldt . His father was the physician and Russian Real Councilor of State Johann Georg von Grünewaldt (1830-1910), who was married to Countess Beate Stenbock . In 1891 Otto Moritz married Helene von Maydell (* 1864). Her descendants were:
- Katharina von Grünewaldt (1892–1908)
- Otto Eduard von Grünewaldt (* 1893)
- Anna von Grünewaldt (* / † 1894)
- Beate von Grünewaldt (* 1895)
- Eduard Paul von Grünewaldt (* 1897)
literature
- Georges Wrangell: Genealogy of the family von Grünewaldt . Reval 1913 ( digital copy [PDF; 33 MByte] at the University of Tartu , hdl: 10062/25989 ).
- Gruenewaldt . In: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods: Part of Estonia . tape II . Publishing house for kin research and heraldry CU Starke, Görlitz 1930, p. 45–57 ( digitized at the Munich digitization center ).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Otto Moritz von Grünewaldt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 . (books.google.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner, Lexicon of German-Language Literature from the Baltic States and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the Present , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 (books.google.de)
- ↑ TAB 21: Beata Elisabet Stenbock. Entry on: Adelsvapen-Wiki (Stenbock nr 12 adelsvapen.com ), accessed August 30, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grünewaldt, Otto Moritz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gruenewaldt, Otto Moritz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian writer and farmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1936 |
| Place of death | Hapsal , Estonia |