{"id":821,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/tiesenhausen\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:00","slug":"tiesenhausen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/t\/tiesenhausen\/","title":{"rendered":"Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/t\/tiesenhausen\/poems\"><span style=\"color:#0066ff\"><strong>Poems<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen (also Bernd, Berndt, 11 December 1703 \u2013 17 January 1789) was the possible author of the popular song <em>Tiiu, tasane and helde<\/em> (\u2018Tiiu, Quiet and Gentle\u2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">He belonged to the big and famous Baltic German family of Tiesenhausens who had arrived from Germany in the areas of present Estonia and Latvia in the early 13th century with the first Crusaders. Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen was born in Lower Saxony and died in Tallinn. His father, Major General Hans Heinrich von Tiesenhausen, had received the baron\u2019s title from Queen Kristina of Sweden in 1654, and he owned several manors in Estonia.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen also chose the military career. In service, he reached the rank of Captain. In 1741\u20131744 and 1772\u20131774, he was head of the Estonian Knighthood. Later, he was a chief executive of Estonia and Active State Councillor. He owned numerous manors in the Governorate of Estonia. In 1759, Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen became a Count of the Russian Empire.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen is generally considered the author of the Estonian-language poem <em>Minno r\u00f6mo olli Rosi<\/em> (\u2018My Joy was Roosi\u2019). The poem appeared in the second issue of the magazine <em>Der teutsche Merkur<\/em> in 1788. The poem is also known by the words of the first verse <em>Tiiu, tasane ja helde<\/em> (\u2018Tiiu, Quiet and Gentle\u2019) and also under the title <em>Tiiu<\/em>. Later, the poem appeared in German translation in several collections. The poem has also been translated into Russian, it has been set to music by several composers, and it has become a popular choral song.\u00a0 According to the literary scholar Jaan Roos, however, the author of the song is not Tiesenhausen but an anonymous \u201clady from Estonia\u201d and it appeared in a book of sheet music printed in Leipzig in 1784 (Jaan Roos, journal <em>Eesti Kirjandus<\/em>, no 4, 1939).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><em>L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems Berend Heinrich von Tiesenhausen (also Bernd, Berndt, 11 December 1703 \u2013 17 January 1789) was the possible author of the popular song Tiiu, tasane and helde (\u2018Tiiu, Quiet and Gentle\u2019). He belonged to the big and famous Baltic German &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-821","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/821\/revisions\/4259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}