Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
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| Born | 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1803 Jömper Manor, Jömper, Kreis Wierland, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (in present-day Jõepere, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia) |
| Died | 25 August [O.S. 13 August] 1882 (aged 78) Dorpat, Kreis Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present-day Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia) |
| Resting place | Raadi cemetery |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Movement | Estonian national awakening |
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1803 – 25 August [O.S. 13 August] 1882) was an Estonian writer and the author of the national epic Kalevipoeg.
Life
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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's parents were born at the Jömper estate, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (in present-day Jõepere, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia) where his father Juhan worked as a shoemaker and granary keeper and mother Anne was a chambermaid.[1] The family sent their son to continue his studies at the Wesenberg (Rakvere) district school.
In 1820, he graduated from secondary school in Dorpat (Tartu) and began working as an elementary school teacher. In 1833, Kreutzwald graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Imperial University of Dorpat.
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Kreutzwald married Marie Elisabeth Saedler on 18 August the same year. From 1833 to 1877, he worked as the municipal physician in Werro (Võru).[2] He was the member of numerous scientific societies in Europe and received honorary doctorates from a number of universities.
Works
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Kreutzwald is the author of several moralistic folk books, most of them translated into German: Plague of Wine 1840, The World and Some Things One Can Find in It 1848–49, Reynard the Fox 1850, and Wise Men of Gotham 1857. In addition to these works, he composed the national epic Kalevipoeg (Kalev's Son),[3] using material initially gathered by his friend Friedrich Robert Faehlmann;[4] and wrote many other works based on Estonian folklore, such as Old Estonian Fairy-Tales (1866), collections of verses, and the poem Lembitu (1885), published after his death.
Kreutzwald is considered one of the intellectual leaders of the Estonian national awakening. He also was a role model for young Estonian-speaking intellectuals.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A. Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States (2011) p. 210
- ^ "F. Reinhold Kreutzwald | Estonian Writer, Nationalist & Father of Estonian Literature | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
- ^ J. D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit (2007) p. 181
- ^ T. Miljan ed., Historical Dictionary of Estonia (2004) p. 236
External links
[edit]- Works by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald at the Internet Archive
- Works by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1803 births
- 1882 deaths
- People from Kadrina Parish
- People from Kreis Wierland
- Physicians from the Russian Empire
- Estonian physicians
- Estonian male poets
- Epic poets
- Collectors of fairy tales
- Estonian folk-song collectors
- 19th-century Estonian painters
- 19th-century Estonian male artists
- 19th-century Estonian poets
- 19th-century musicologists
- 19th-century male writers
- Burials at Raadi cemetery