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18-780: Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Ndonga dialect. Beginning his work in 1885, he published the New Testament in 1903, but it took until 1920 to finish the Old Testament. His Bible translation became the basis of a standardized form of Ndonga. Oshindonga uses a five-vowel system: Oshindonga contains the following consonant phonemes: Prenasalized sounds are listed below: Oshindonga also contains many other consonant compounds, listed below: Tones Oshidonga has two tones : high and low. This Bantu language -related article

36-598: A renovation and expansion project. The museum was estimated to reopen in 2027, but due to the budget cuts by Petteri Orpo 's government affecting the Finnish Heritage Agency , the reopening has been postponed indefinitely. The building of the National Museum was designed by the architect company Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen . The appearance of the building reflects Finland's medieval churches and castles . The architecture belongs to national romanticism and

54-437: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Namibia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Angola -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Martti Rautanen Bible Translators Theologians Martti (Martin) Rautanen (10 November 1845 Tikopis ( Russian : Тикопись ), Ingria – 19 October 1926 Olukonda , South West Africa )

72-512: The Bible into Oshindonga in 1885. The New Testament was published in 1903, but it took until 1920 before the whole Old Testament was translated and it was not printed until 1954. Rautanen's 'testament' for the Ovamboland people was a selection of texts published posthumously with the title Travel Rod in 1934. Rautanen was also active in the study of ethnography. He respected and gave great value to

90-689: The German Rhenish Mission Society. From Walvis Bay they travelled via Hereroland where they arrived in April 1869 and spent there over a year. Finally, they reached Ovamboland in July 1870. The Finnish missionaries managed to start work primarily in the southeastern territory of the Ondonga tribe. The first mission station was founded that year in at Omandongo , moving to Olukonda the following year. Rautanen worked in Ovamboland over 50 years acting as

108-465: The National Museum in the Silver Room, which was caused by methane leaking into a broom cupboard from the drainage through dried floor drain and lit by a spark from the power distribution cabinet in the cleaning closet. There were two possible sources for the methane; a leak from a gas pipe under the nearby Museokatu street, or gas that developed on its own in the sewer. Later, police investigations found

126-637: The Swedish Kingdom Period to the Russian Empire Era, and Finnish folk culture in the 18th and 19th centuries with life in the countryside before the industrialisation among other exhibitions. The collections also included the Mesa Verde artifacts from the cliff dwellings of Colorado . These were donated to the museum by the Finland Swedish explorer Gustaf Nordenskiöld . They comprised

144-580: The couple had nine children, many of whom died at an early age due to malaria . Their daughter, Johanna was a teacher at Olukonda and died in 1966 at Onandjokwe. Albin Savola National Museum of Finland The National Museum of Finland ( Finnish : Suomen kansallismuseo , Swedish : Finlands Nationalmuseum ) is a museum in Helsinki presenting Finnish history from the Stone Age to

162-524: The director of a missionary station established in Olukonda in 1880, translating the Bible, and very patiently educating the local populations. The first local people to become pastors emerged in 1925. Rautanen's literary work consisted of translation of hymns and the publication of a hymnal in 1892 in Ndonga . Rautanen also wrote poems which were used as texts for new hymns in Ovamboland. Rautanen started translating

180-595: The frescoes painted by Gallén-Kallela in the Finnish Pavilion of the Paris World Fair in 1900. The permanent exhibitions of the National Museum are divided into parts. There are collections of coins , medals , orders and decorations, silver, jewellery and weapons . There is prehistory of Finland, the development of Finnish society and culture from the Middle Ages 12th century to the early 20th century through

198-605: The hat". He loved to wear a skullcap, which for the locals resembled a small basket - okambale . His nickname was written on his tombstone. Rautanen is a respected person in present-day Namibia as well. His diaries are held at the University of Turku. The family’s home in Olukonda is now the Nakambale Museum. Rautanen married Frieda Kleinschmidt in 1872. She was the daughter of the German missionary Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt ;

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216-701: The indigenous culture. His ethnographic collection is now deposited in the National Museum of Finland . Rautanen's contribution to scientific knowledge concerning Ovamboland is also considerable. He made meteorological observations and collected plants. His interest in plants followed on the 1885–86 visit by the Swiss botanist Hans Schinz ; Rautanen was inspired and became an enthusiastic collector of plants and ethnographic material, collections which were later assimilated by museums in Finland, Germany and South Africa. In turn Schinz

234-611: The interior mainly to Art Nouveau . The museum was built from 1905 to 1910 and opened to the public in 1916. The museum was named the Finnish National Museum after Finland's independence in 1917. After the last thorough renovation, the Museum was re-opened in July 2000. The museum's entrance hall ceiling has ceiling frescoes in the national epic Kalevala theme, painted by Akseli Gallén-Kallela , which can be seen without an entrance fee. The frescoes, painted in 1928, are based on

252-581: The most-extensive collection of Mesa Verde items outside the United States and one of the largest collections of native Americana outside the American continents. In 2019 it was decided to return a portion of the artifacts to the representatives of the indigenous people of the United States of America, with it agreed for some 600 items to be kept and exhibited. On 23 January 2006 an explosion occurred at

270-512: The present day, through objects and cultural history . The Finnish National Romantic style building is located at Mannerheimintie 34 in central Helsinki and is a part of the Finnish Heritage Agency (until 2018 the National Board of Antiquities) ( Finnish : Museovirasto , Swedish : Museiverket ), under the Ministry of Culture and Education. The National Museum is currently closed due to

288-821: The province of Savo in Eastern Finland, but had moved to Ingria. Rautanen considered himself a Russian as he was born and living in Russia. Encouraged by the pastor of his church and his mother, Rautanen left Ingria in 1863 for Helsinki to study at the preparatory school for missionaries organized by the Finnish Missionary Society . He spoke several languages included Finnish, English, German, Dutch, Russian, Latin and Greek; he later learned Otjiherero and Oshindonga . Rautanen departed from Finland with four colleagues on 24 June 1868 towards Ovamboland in present-day Namibia. Initially they worked with Carl Hugo Hahn of

306-542: Was impressed by Rautanen and named the genus Neorautanenia and the mongongo nut tree Ricinodendron rautanenii after him, while the German botanist and authority on Lythraceae , Bernhard Koehne , commemorated him in Nesaea rautanenii . Shortly prior to his death, Rautanen received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Helsinki . The local people in Ovamboland called him Nakambale - "the one who wears

324-622: Was the pioneer of the Finnish Mission in Ovamboland , South West Africa . Rautanen was born in a poor Finnish family in Ingria near St. Peterburg , Russia. Rautanen's family lived in the village of Tikanpesä in the parish of Novasolkka (Russian: Новоселки , romanized : Novoselki ) in the Yamburgsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate . The family originated from Joroinen in

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