Anton Jürgenstein

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Anton Jürgenstein

Anton Jürgenstein (born October 20 July / November 1,  1861 greg. In Vana-Vändra ; † February 21, 1933 in Tartu ) was an Estonian critic and journalist .

Life

Jürgenstein went to school in Vana-Vändra and Kodavere and from 1878 to 1882 attended the renowned seminar of Jānis Cimze in Valga . Then he was a teacher from the district school in Käru and a private tutor in Orajõe . From 1885 to 1905 he was a teacher and headmaster in Vändra . Since 1898 he was also editor of the magazine Linda , after Lilli Suburg had left the editorial office.

In 1906 Jürgenstein changed to the editorial office of the Postimees in Tartu. From 1923 he was editor-in-chief of the renowned newspaper, he was also politically active and was a member of the Second State Duma in 1907 and in the Estonian parliament in the interwar period .

Jürgenstein was a founding member of the Estonian Writers' Association and at times chairman of the Estonian Literary Society .

plant

Jürgenstein first made his debut with features and a play before turning to literary criticism. In this area he wrote important treatises, for example on Mihkel Veske , Karl Eduard Sööt or Jakob Tamm , while he was opposed to the critical realism of Eduard Vilde .

Jürgenstein also worked as a translator from German. a. translated the first part of Goethe's Faust into Estonian.

Trivia

When the future chess grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca was in Tartu for a simultaneous tournament in 1913, he lost to Jürgenstein. The Estonian literary scholar Heino Puhvel later wrote a short story about it.

bibliography

  • Erapooletumad mõtted Eesti koduste parteide ja tülide kohta . Viljandi: [sn] 1883. 16 pp.
  • Juta. Neljajärguline kurblik luulelugu . Tartu: sn 1886. 58 p.
  • Wändra jutumees . Vändra: M. Tõnisson 1889. 96 pp.
  • Jakob Tamm ja tema luuletused , in: Eesti Kirjandus 1908, pp. 232–239, 270–280, 331–337, 361–370.
  • Dr. Mihkel Weske 25. surmapäeva mälestuseks. Jurjev: Postimees 1915. 80 pp.
  • Suur ilmasõda 1914-1915. Tartu: sn 1915. 156 pp.
  • Arvustuslised kirjatööd . Tartu: Postimees 1918. 170 pp.
  • Huwitaw peatükk Eesti minewikust: Johann Georg Eisen von Schwarzenberg . Tartu: Postimees 1921. 32 pp.
  • Kultuurilist yes poliitilist nipet-nepet: Eesti kaugemast ja lähemast minewikust. Tallinn: Tallinna Eesti Kirjastuse-Ühisus 1921. 55 pp.
  • Carl Robert Jakobsoni elu ja töö . Tartu: Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi kirjastus 1925. 115 pp.
  • Minu mälestused I, II. Tartu: Noor-Eesti 1926–1927. 217, 254 pp.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 288.
  2. ↑ a b Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 998-5-65271-1 , pp. 154-155.
  3. ↑ Heino Puhvel: Anton Jürgensteini suurpäev ('Anton Jürgenstein's great day'), in: Looming 12/1998, pp. 1834-1850.
personal data
SURNAME Jürgenstein, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vändra (rural municipality)
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1933
Place of death Tartu