Ado Reinvald

Ado Reinvald (born November 21 ^July / December 3, 1847 ^greg. On the Juurika manor in the municipality of Uusna, today the rural municipality of Viiratsi , Estonia ; † February 8, 1922 in Kulbilohu near Elva ) was an Estonian writer and poet .

life and work

Ado Reinvald's father was the tenant of a farm in the Viljandi district of Livonia . Ado Reinvald received little schooling, but continued to educate himself self-taught. From 1850 to 1894 he lived on the Ilissa farm in the village of Väluste (today the rural municipality of Tarvastu ). From 1867 Reinvald had to run the farm himself after the early death of his father, who died as a result of a flogging sentence. In 1894 the estate went bankrupt and was foreclosed. Reinvald then moved to Nõo and Elva , where he bought a house. From 1912 he lived in the village of Kulbilohu, where he devoted himself almost entirely to writing and died in poverty in 1922. Today he is buried in the Raadi cemetery in Tartu .

From 1868 Ado Reinvald wrote numerous poems, satires, stories, short stories and in 1897 the theater play Bagdadi Kalif . He is particularly remembered for his Estonian patriotic poetry. His most famous poem Kuldrannake ("Goldsträndchen") is familiar to every Estonian as a folk song.

Reinvald stood in the tradition of his great role model Lydia Koidula and was heavily influenced literarily by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald . He was an important poet during the Estonian National Awakening. In addition, Reinvald worked on the Sakala newspaper, founded in 1878, and on the compilation of calendars.

The Estonian writer Nikolai Baturin dedicated the play Kuldrannake to the life of Ado Reinvald .

Poetry collections

• Villandi laulik (four volumes: 1872, 1875, 1877, 1889)
• Õitsi Ööpik (1876)
• Nalja-Kannel ehk Laulurahe Baltlaste lilliaias (two volumes: 1881, 1883), together with his brother Jüri Reinvald (1853–1913)
• Ado Reinvaldi laulud (1904)
• Valik luuletusi (selection collection, posthumously 1924)

literature

• Endel Priidel: Ado Reinvald. Luuletaja yes talupoeg. Tallinn 1965
• Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 301f.

Web links

• CV, pictures, texts (Estonian)
• CV and facsimile of his works (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 423f.
2. ↑ http://elm.einst.ee/issue/19/nikolai-baturin-unusual-estonian-writer/ ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.