Pastor Leopold v. Otto also ''Leopold Marcin von Otto'' (2 November 1819 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

– 22 September 1882 in Warsaw) was a

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

pastor of the German community in Warsaw and Poland and a national activist, participant of the patriotic manifestation of 1861 in

. In 1866–1875 Otto worked in

Cieszyn Cieszyn ( , ; ; ) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitants ( and lies opposite Český Těšín in the Czech Repu ...

. He published a book about the "Deutsche Evangelische Gemeinde" (German Protestant Community ''Zwiastun Ewangeliczny'') and also wrote

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s and religious writings. In

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, he was a supporter of Lutheran orthodoxy and starkly rejected liberal theology and rationalistic interpretation of the

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. His second wife was Emilia Izabela Linde (1826–1857), daughter of

Samuel Linde Samuel Bogumił Linde (born Samuel Gottlieb Linde; Toruń, 11 or 24 April 1771 – 8 August 1847, Warsaw) was a Polish linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of Swedish-German extraction. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum dur ...

, Polish linguist.

Works

*Beitrag zur Geschichte der Evangelisch-Augsburgischen Gemeinde zu Warschau
Druck bei A Gins, Warschau 1882
*''Rozmyślania i kazania'' (1887) *''Dra ks Leopolda Marcina Otto rozmyślania i kazania'' (1887) *''Postyla, czyli Wykład ewangelij i listów na wszystkie niedziele i święta uroczyste roku kościelnego'' (1892) *''Wykład Objawienia św. Jana'' (1904) *''Mniejszy katechizm Marcina Lutra Doktora św. Teologji'' (1916)

Works

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