How to Pronounce Ado Grenzstein
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Feb 05, 1846 Tarvastu Rural Municipality, Viljandi County, Estonia Died on 20 Apr 1916 (aged 70)
Estonian journalist, writer and teacher
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About Ado Grenzstein
- Ado Grenzstein, pseudonym A.
- Piirikivi (February 5, 1849 - April 20, 1916) was an Estonian journalist, writer and teacher, brother of Tõnis Grenzstein.
- In 1881 he founded the Olevik newspaper, which become one of the most important Estonian newspapers of the period.
- The purpose of the paper was "weaning the Estonian peasant readership away from the 'firebrands and madcaps' who edited Sakala.
- He soon broke with the Estonian national movement and became an apologist of Russification.
- He even went further, expressing doubt whether the loss of the Estonian nation would be of any consequence to man-kind.
- His views have been characterized as "national nihilism".
- In 1901 he left Estonia and settled first in Dresden, and then later in Paris.In an attempt to revitalize the Estonian language, Grenzstein tried to coin words out of nothing (see ex nihilo lexical enrichment) and introduced neologisms such as kabe "draughts, checkers" and male "chess".
