Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter

Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter (born 12 Julijul / July 23 1782greg in Valmiera, .. .. † 15 Apriljul / April 27 1846greg in Pärnu ) was a Baltic German writer and linguist. He was a pioneer in the scientific study of the Estonian language.

Pastor

Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter was born as the son of a postman. He attended high school in Tallinn and the cathedral school in Riga. In 1806 he completed his studies in theology at the University of Tartu. 1808/1809 he worked as a Lutheran pastor in Tori. From 1809 until his death, he led the St. Elizabeth Parish in Pärnu. He is buried in the local cemetery.

"Contributions to the more exact knowledge of the language ehstnischen "

Rosenplänter was probably the most significant publishers, collectors and researchers of Estonian-language writings of his time. He was with his activities pioneered a scientific study of the Estonian language and the formation of the Estonian nation. He seemed so in the spirit of Johann Gottfried Herder and the Enlightenment.

Especially, edited by him 1813-1832 Journal contributions to the more exact knowledge of the language ehstnischen represents the first scientific study of the Estonian linguistic fields to her almost every major German - Baltic and Finnish Estophilen the time were involved and a few Estonians ( Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Otto Wilhelm Masing ).

The articles published in the journal work on the Estonian language, literature and folklore are considered ground-breaking. In it also provides important Estonian literary texts (vocabulary, folk literature, poetry, letters, and translations) have been published. The contributions also formed the foundation for later work on poetics, literary criticism and bibliographies.

Estophiler

As the first ever Rosenplänter wanted to give a complete bibliography estnischsprachiger books, a job that later scholars Estonian Society ( Eesti Õpetatud Seltsis, OES) continued.

In addition, Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter collected Estonian manuscripts. Thanks to its records Kristjan Jaak Peterson 's poems and Gustav Adolph Oldekop have been handed down to posterity, who had remained almost completely unknown at that time. 1814 was Rosenplänter the first Estonian poetry anthology titled Lilli Kessed.

Rosenplänter The complainant further thesis that all German Baltic in Estonia should learn the Estonian language and Estonian - called teaching at the high school - radical demands for its time.

Reception

Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter appears as a fictional character in the novel " The madman of the Czar " of the Estonian writer Jaan Kross.