August Hanko

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August Hanko (also August John Hanko , born January 6 . Jul / 18th January  1879 greg. In Suure Kambja, rural community Kambja ; † 25. May 1952 in Arljuk , Kemerovo Oblast ) was an Estonian writer , translator and politician .

Life

Hanko attended the district school in Kambja as well as the Hugo-Treffner high school and the state high school in Tartu. From 1900 to 1904 he studied law at the University of Tartu . Then he was in the editorial office of the Postimees in Tartu, from 1906 to 1907 for Tallinn newspapers. In June 1907, shortly before the dissolution of the Second State Duma , he was arrested and, after three weeks in prison in Tallinn, expelled from the Baltic States . After that he lived alternately in Finland and Narva , which at that time belonged to the Saint Petersburg district, until 1908 .

In 1908 he was able to return to Estonia. He joined the editorial office of Päevaleht in Tallinn, where he stayed for ten years. After Estonia gained independence , he was appointed Minister of War in Jaan Tõnisson's first cabinet in November 1919 . After the cabinet fell in the summer of 1920, Hanko left politics. He worked briefly in trade and shipping , but withdrew from it after economic failures and then worked as a freelance writer and translator.

After the political upheavals in Estonia, he was arrested by the NKVD in 1945 and exiled to Siberia , where he died seven years later.

Publications

Hanko published a number of biographies on both Estonians ( Julius Kuperjanov , Jaan Poska ) and foreigners ( Henry Morton Stanley , Roald Amundsen , Admiral Nelson ). He has had the most lasting effect as a translator of Scandinavian literature; he made Estonian translations of u. a. Johan Bojer , Olav Duun , Trygve Emanuel Gulbranssen , Knut Hamsun , Selma Lagerlöf , Henrik Pontoppidan and Mika Waltari . His own literary work, however, remained a manuscript, for example a collection of “sea stories” or two novels planned as a five-part series. Only his memoirs were printed in 1939 under the title "Once Upon a Time ...".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti biograafiline leksikon. Peatoimetaja: Arno Rafael Cederberg . Tartu: Loodus 1926-1929, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 103-104.
personal data
SURNAME Hanko, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanko, August Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer, translator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Suure Kambja , Kambja rural municipality
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1952
Place of death Arlyuk , Kemerovo Oblast