Life and work
Rußwurm came from a family of theologians and educators. His father, Johann Georg Rußwurm (1781–1848) was the rector of the cathedral school at and later a pastor in Selmsdorf, and his uncle was also a pastor. His younger brother, (1814–1890), later became the Provost (religion), provost of Ratzeburg. After attending the cathedral school his father taught, he studied theology in Bonn and Berlin. In 1831, he became a member of the Burschenschaft ''Populonia Bonn'' and in 1832 a member of the ''Kränzchenverein Berlin''.Helge Dvorak: ''Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft.'' In 1835, he went to Estonia as a private tutor. In 1839, he was appointed inspector of the Knights and Domschule at Reval (now Tallinn). In 1841, he moved to the health resort town of Hapsal (now Haapsalu), where he initially worked as a teacher and later as an inspector of the local county school. After his retirement in 1868, he worked on scientific works and returned to Reval, where he was appointed an archivist of the Estonian chancery. He dealt mainly with Estonian cultural history and ethnography and the genealogy of Baltic German families. In Hapsal, his most important work was ''Eibofolke'' or ''The Swedes On the Coast of Esthland and Runö ''(Runö now being modern Ruhnu), where he received the prestigious Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, Demidov Prize.Works
* ''Nordische Sagen. Der deutschen Jugend erzählt und mit einem wissenschaftlichen Anhange versehen.'' Leipzig: Fleischer 1842 *Further reading
* * Helge Dvorak: ''Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft.'' Band I Politiker, Teilband 5: R–S. Heidelberg 2002, S. 149–150.External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Russworm, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm 1812 births 1883 deaths 19th-century German educators 19th-century German historians 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German ethnologists German genealogists People from Ratzeburg