His remains were moved to the Pajusi manor cemetery, the family cemetery of the von Wahl family
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Edgar de Wahl
Edgar von Wahl was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn, Estonia. He also used the pseudonym Julian Prorók, and is best known as the creator of Interlingue, an international auxiliary language that was known as Occidental throughout his life.
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science · Estonian educator, inventor of Interlingue · linguist · Esperantist · Idist · teacher · politician · mathematician · also Edgar de Wahl, Edgar von Wahl, Edgar Alexei Robert von Wahl, Wahl
Born 11 August 1867 · Died 9 March 1948 · Q327195
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-03-09.
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1946· 1 entry
It was suggested that she disappeared during the forced migrations of June 1941, but now it is known that she was arrested and shot by the NKVD in 1941
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1943· 1 entry
By the Nazi German occupation authorities and placed in a psychiatric clinic because of alleged dementia
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1939· 1 entry
Was likely the only Estonian to be invited to the 5th Linguistic Conference in Brussels
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1927· 2 entries
Kosmoglott began to be published in Vienna (instead of Tallinn) under the new name Cosmoglotta
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The International Cosmoglotta Association was founded, which a year later was renamed Occidental-Union
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1925· 1 entry
Titled Radicarium directiv del lingue International (Occidental) in 8 languages
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1922· 2 entries
Published a "key" to a new language, Occidental, and the first edition of the periodical Kosmoglott (later Cosmoglotta)
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Wahl became an honorary member of the club
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1921· 1 entry
But picking up again in Tallinn in the same year
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1919· 1 entry
The Secondary School of Science was divided by language: the Tallinn High School of Science taught in Estonian and the Tallinn German High School of Science taught in German
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1916· 1 entry
Russian artificial language enthusiasts founded the Kosmoglot Association in Saint Petersburg
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1914· 2 entries
Edgar von Wahl married Agnes Riesenkampff
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In 1914, Edgar von Wahl married Agnes Riesenkampff.
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1913· 2 entries
Was elected to the Tallinn city council, and became a member of the council committee for the protection of monuments of ancient buildings
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After which Johann, Guido and Lydia stayed with Edgar while Anatol stayed with his mother, who moved to Finland, and some time later Lydia Maria also went there
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1911· 1 entry
Formulated the word formation rule (known as De Wahl's rule) that would form the basis of Occidental
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1909· 1 entry
In the journal Academia pro Interlingua – Discussiones
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1896· 1 entry
And 1897 he published two articles in the Hanover-based magazine Linguist, in which he presented his ideas
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1895· 1 entry
Became a member of the Estonian Imperial Maritime Yacht Club, and in the following years was an active member, joining its technical committee and being the secretary of the club
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1894· 4 entries
Wahl moved to Tallinn, where he spent most of the rest of his life
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Of which Wahl had been a proponent, he started work to find an ideal form of an international language
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Edgar von Wahl married Maria von Hübbenet (the daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna's personal physician), in Saint Petersburg in 1894.
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Lived permanently in Tallinn and worked as a teacher
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1892· 1 entry
Wahl volunteered to serve in the Russian Navy
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1891· 2 entries
And became a correspondent for the magazine La Esperantisto
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And in 1893 received a diploma as a teacher of drawing at the Elementary School of the Academy of Arts
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1887· 1 entry
Being introduced to the language by his father's colleague, Waldemar Rosenberger, in Saint Petersburg
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-08-11.
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1837· 1 entry
Laid the foundation for the Päinurme line
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