Peter Ernst Wilde

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Peter Ernst Wilde (* 24. August 1732 in Woedtke , Greifenberg county , † December 17 jul. / 28. December  1785 greg. In Oberpahlen , Governorate of Livonia ) was a Baltic German physician and man of letters, the first Estonian magazine Lühhike öppetus (1766 -67) published.

life and work

Peter Ernst Wilde studied for two years at the University of Königsberg theology , in 1749 at the Friedrich-University in Halle jurisprudence and from 1751, again in Konigsberg, medicine . He obtained his medical doctorate in 1765 at the University of Greifswald . In the same year he came to Kurland and published the magazine Der Landarzt in Mitau . Via Riga it reached Oberpahlen in Livonia in 1766 , where the Baltic German landowner Woldemar Johann von Lauw (1712–1786) had founded several factories. The small town in Northern Livland had a population of 2,000 at the time and was flourishing. To supply the population, Lauw also founded a hospital and a pharmacy, which he won over from Peter Ernst Wilde. In addition, the first private printing press in the Russian Empire was built here in 1766.

Wilde was a supporter of the Enlightenment and therefore wanted to reach the rural population with his writings, whose language he did not speak. So he won the local priest, August Wilhelm Hupel , who was one of the best Estonian language experts at the time, as a translator. Together they published the weekly periodical Lühhike öppetus ... , in which practical advice on health care, but also general information on the organization of daily life were given. A total of 41 deliveries of the magazine are known, and in 1768 the first 25 deliveries were also published in Latvian.

Fonts

  • Lühhike öppetus… (complete facsimile of the 41 editions 1766-1767).
  • Discours about Dimsdal's way of plugging in the leaves . Oberpahlen 1769. 38 p.
  • Extract from the country doctor and the Liefland treatises on the science of medicine, or instructions on how to recognize the diseases of the common man, and how to cure them partly with home remedies, partly with cheap medicine. Oberpahlen 1770. 125 pp.
  • Arsti ramat ('Doctor's Book'). Põltsamaa: WJ v. Lauw 1771. 162 pp.
  • Something from Lieland school lessons, in cities and noble houses. A hint to parents to make sure that their children do not waste time or money. Mitau: Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen 1778. 31 p.

literature

  • H. Normann: Esimesest eesti arstlik-tervishoiulisest ajakirjast, in Eesti Kirjandus 12/1926, pp. 614-629.
  • Juhan Peegel : Eesti ajakirjanduse algus (1766-1857). Tallinn: Valgus 1966, pp. 10-25.
  • Aino Valmet: Lühhike öppetus keelelisest küljest, in Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1966, pp. 683–688.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018025-1 , pp. 159-160 .
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 674.
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Peter Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic doctor and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Woedtke , Greifenberg district
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1785
Place of death Oberpahlen , Livonia Governorate