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

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

- 22 September 1882 in Warsaw) was a

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

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 ( , ; cs, Těšín ; german: Teschen; la, Tessin; szl, Ćeszyn) 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 inhabitan ...

. 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 Gottlieb Linde (polonised ''Samuel Bogumił Linde''; 11 or 24 April 1771, in Toruń – 8 August 1847, in Warsaw) was a linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum ...

, 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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