Otto Wilhelm Masing [SEP] place of death
Otto Wilhelm Masing
Otto Wilhelm Masing ( in Lohusuu, Kreis Dorpat, Livland Governorate – in Äksi, Livland Governorate) was an early Baltic German Estophile and a major advocate of peasant rights, especially regarding education.
Life.
He received schooling at the town school of Narva (1777–1779) and then (1779–1782) at the Gymnasium of Torgau (Germany) before studying theology, music and drawing at the University of Halle, returning to Estonia in 1786. 
In 1796 he married Dorothea Amalie Ehlertz (1776–1809)
Masing
Masing is a German and Estonian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- (1836–1923), Baltic German philologist
- (1845–1936), Baltic German linguist
- (1875–1948), Estonian politician and physician
- Johannes Masing (born 1959), German judge, jurisprudent and public law scholar
- (1879–1956), Baltic German physician
- (1874–1947), Baltic German philologist
- Otto Wilhelm Masing (1763–1832), Estonian linguist and clergyman
- Uku Masing (1909–1985)