{"id":657,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/mannteuffel\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:26","slug":"mannteuffel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/mannteuffel\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter August Friedrich von Mannteuffel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Count Peter August Friedrich von Mannteuffel (30.\/19. I 1768 \u2013 8. V \/ 26. IV 1842) was a Baltic-German man of letters who wrote poetry and stories in Estonian which were in a more vernacular style and more in sympathy with the peasantry that the works of most of the Baltic German writers.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born in Tallinn into an influential Baltic German noble family. Apparently he was educated by private tutors, among others by O.W. Masing, the enlightenment figure of Estonian origin, who was only five years older than Mannteuffel. With Masing, in his late teens the count travelled extensively in western and southern Europe, including Rome; he attended lectures at the University of Leipzig. Mannteuffel also corresponded with the Baltic German scholar of Estonian folklore, Arnold Kn\u00fcpffer. He owned about ten estates in northern Estonia, and spent most of his life at Ravila Manor. He was known for his eccentric behaviour. As a young man he was active as an actor in the Tallinn amateur theatre founded by August von Kotzebue; he built several machines, including an aircraft, the unsuccessful trials of which at the turn of the century at Pada Manor gave rise to several folk stories. He engaged in physical work on the estate and was happy to mix with the peasantry, which was quite exceptional for a Baltic German nobleman. In people\u2019s mouths he acquired the nickname \u2018the mad count\u2019, thus becoming an archetypal figure in Estonian culture \u2013 that name has been borne in later times by other noblemen and politicians.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his younger days, before the turn of the century, he wrote poems in Estonian in a sentimental romantic style, the themes of which were farm life, love and liquor. Most of these poems have disappeared by now. August Annist ascribes to Mannteuffel the anonymous verse dialogue \u00dcks Ennemuiste Luggu \u00fchhe Warga pe\u00e4le<\/em> (\u2018An Ancient Tale about a Thief\u2019), which appeared at the end of the 18th century and was several times reprinted.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMannteuffel is best known for a book that appeared at the end of his life, Aiawite peergo walgussel<\/em> (\u2018In the Light of the Torch of Diversion\u2019, 1838). This is a collection of six fables and one longer story, depicting the life of peasants of the period \u2013 love and marriage, but also theft of manor property, alcoholism and the general wretchedness of farmers\u2019 lives. Although the author does not criticise the late feudal system of the period, he at least draws attention to the plight of the peasantry. The detailed descriptions of peasant life and customs brought recognition of Mannteuffel\u2019s good knowledge of his subject. He used many proverbs and much humour, and in the poetry even some elements of folk-songs. The religious component is secondary. Mannteuffel makes orthographical mistakes in Estonian, but his style is, in the opinion of literary scholars, natural and demotic, his vocabulary abundant, which helped Alawite peergo walgussel<\/em> to become popular among Estonians at the time. Some of the poems appearing in it became common knowledge and some of them were rewritten as folk-songs.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMannteuffel\u2019s second book was the anti-alcohol Willem Nawi ello-p\u00e4wad<\/em> (\u2018The Days of Willem Naav\u2019, 1839), whose basic idea was borrowed from the Swiss writer J.H.D. Zschokke\u2019s tale Die Branntweinpest<\/em> (\u2018The Scourge of Spirits\u2019). Elias L\u00f6nnrot also translated Willem Nawi ello-p\u00e4evad<\/em> into Finnish, adapting it slightly to Finnish conditions \u2013 Wilhelmi Linterin historia<\/em> (\u2018The History of Wilhelm Linter\u2019, 1856) is one of the first translations of Estonian literature into a foreign language.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tF.R. Kreutzwald upheld the creations of Mannteuffel in particular in comparison with the more mediocre Pietistic moralizing tales in Estonian by Baltic Germans. Mannteuffel\u2019s books also enthused F.R. Faehlmann and other great figures of the National Awakening to create literature in Estonian.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tS. V. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00dcks Ennemuiste Luggu \u00fchhe Warga pe\u00e4le<\/strong>. Tallinn: 179-?, 8 lk.
Peter August Freidrich krahv v. Mannteuffel, Aiawite peergo walgussel<\/strong>. Tallinn: 1838, 75 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1839, 1939.]
Peter August Freidrich krahv v. Mannteuffel, Willem Nawi ello-p\u00e4wad<\/strong>. Tallinn: 1839, 55 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1922.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCollected works<\/em><\/strong>
Teosed<\/strong>. Redigeerinud ja j\u00e4rels\u00f5na kirjutanud August Annist. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1967, 163 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: \u2018Ajaviide\u2019, 2018.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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