Andres Alver (poet)

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Andres Alver (born October 26 . Jul / 7. November  1869 greg. In Vooru, rural community Tarvastu , † January 11 jul. / 24. January  1903 greg. In Abuls at Smiltene , Latvia ) was an Estonian physician and poet.

Life

Andres Alver attended the Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu from 1887 to 1892 and then studied medicine at the University of Tartu until 1898 . Then he was briefly assistant forensic medicine before he went to Valga as a district doctor . There he completed his doctoral thesis, but it was no longer possible to defend it: he drowned in the Abuls River while he was in office. The Estonian poet Betti Alver is his brother's daughter.

plant

As a student, Alver became interested in Darwinism and socialism and became involved in politics at an early age. Together with Eduard Vilde , Jakob Tamm and Georg Eduard Luiga he participated in radical publications. Parallel to his poems, he made translations of Heine and Goethe , which had a strong influence on his poetry. He later published a translation of Heine's "Disputation" separately. Alver also used motifs from folk poetry in his work and wrote a manuscript drama that has remained intact.

Translations into German

One of his poems is available in German in Wilhelm Nerling's anthology.

bibliography

  • Võhumõõgad ('Irises'). Jurjev: sn 1898. 60 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Oskar Kuningas: Ühest enneaegu manalasse varisenud talendist, in: Kodumaa November 1, 1989, p. 5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanduse ajalugu. II köide. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1966, pp. 583-584.
  2. ↑ Oskar Kuningas: Ühest enneaegu manalasse varisenud talendist in: Kodumaa November 1, 1989, p. 5
  3. ↑ Waidlemine = (disputation). Heine järele A. Alwer. Viljandi: sn 1902. 16 pp.
  4. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 29.
  5. ^ "Sea memories", in: Estonian poems. Translated by W. Nerling. Dorpat: Laakmann 1925, pp. 78-79.
personal data
SURNAME Alver, Andres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian doctor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Vooru, Tarvastu Rural Municipality
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1903
Place of death Abuls near Smiltene , Latvia