page_title: Otto Wilhelm Masing
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Wilhelm Masing / Work
caption_attribution_description: Eesti: Äksi Andrease kirik.English: Church of Andrew the Apostle in Äksi, Estonia.
context_page_description: Otto Wilhelm Masing was an early Baltic German Estophile and a major advocate of peasant rights, especially regarding education.
context_section_description: His first employment after concluding his studies was as private tutor at the Manor in Neu-Isenhof (Püssi) for the children of the nobleman Otto Magnus von Toll. 
  In 1788 he became the pastor of the (Lutheran) church in Lüg (Lüganuse) (1788–1795), then serving from 1795 in Maholm (Viru-Nigula) (1795–1815) and from 1815 in Ecks (Äksi), where he remained as pastor until his death. 
  From 1818 he also took on the post of assessor of the consistory of Livonia and from 1821 onwards he was also Provost for Tartu.
caption: Church of St. Andrew in Äksi (2015)
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