Edgar Valter Saks

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Edgar Valter Saks (born January 12, jul. / 25. January  1910 greg. In Tartu , † 11 April 1984 in Montreal ) was an Estonian writer.

Life

Edgar V. Saks graduated from Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu in 1928 and then began studying law at the University of Tartu , which he graduated in 1933. Even during his studies he had an affinity for journalism, but in the second half of the thirties he initially worked in business. After the Sovietization of Estonia he joined the Forest Brothers , and in 1944 he fled to Sweden via Finland . There he participated in various exile magazines and their founding. In 1949 he emigrated to Canada , where he worked in the woodworking industry.

Saks had been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union , the Estonian and Canadian PEN since 1933. In May 1971 he was appointed Minister of Education of the Estonian government in exile .

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Edgar V. Saks made his debut in 1929 with the novel Heimatlos , with which he won third prize in the Loodus publishing house's novel competition. He then wrote three more novels, which were received with reluctance. While in some reviews "captivating passages" could still be found, other critics did not see much positive in Saks' works from the beginning. His last, historical novel Hannibals Volk falls into the phase of a revitalized nationalism in Estonia and, here comparable to Enn Kippel , stands out in particular through the glorification of Estonian war heroes.

In exile, the author devoted himself to questions of Estonian identity and history and published a number of popular science books, which, however , have been described as pseudosciences because they are merely "fictions by a non-scientist to raise national self-esteem". In scientific circles, these books were dismissed as amateur from the start.

bibliography

Novels

  • Kodutu ('homeless'). Tartu: Loodus 1929. 246 pp.
  • Jaan Tamar ('JT'). Tartu: Loodus 1932. 200 pp.
  • Armuke ('The Beloved'). Tartu: Eesti Kirjastuste Cooperative 1936. 249 pp.
  • Hannibali rahvas. Ajalooline romaan Liivi-Vene sõjast ('Hannibal's people. Historical novel from the Livonian War'). Tartu: Postimees 1936. 294 pp.

Pseudoscientific

  • Aestii. An analysis of an ancient European civilization . Montreal / Heidelberg 1960. 300 pp.
  • Esto Europe. A treatise on the finno-ugric primary civilization in Europe . Montreal, Lund: Võitleja 1966. 239 pp.
  • Eesti soost vasalkond. Jüriöö mäss. Revideerivaid seisukohti ürikute alusel . Philadelphia, Wilmington: Korporatsioon Rotalia BWW allkoondis 1971. 34 pp.
  • Commentaries on the Liber Census Daniae. Studies in mediaeval European history . Montreal, Ann Arbor: Rotalia Publications 1974. 229 pp.
  • The Estonian Vikings . London: Boreas Publishing House / Montreal: Practical Handbooks 1981. 234 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Julius Mägiste : Asjaarmastuslik eestlaste eelajalugu, in: Tulimuld 2/1961, pp. 151–157.
  • Jaan Puhvel : Ajaloo keetmise nõiakatel, in: Mana 4/1966, pp. 49–51.
  • E. Raudsepp: Edg. V. Saks: Hannibali rahvas, in: Looming 8/1936, pp. 952-954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 500-501.
  2. ↑ E. Raudsepp: Edg. V. Saks: Hannibali rahvas, in: Looming 8/1936, p. 954.
  3. ↑ See the review by Jaan Tamar in Friedebert Tuglas : Eesti romaan 1932, in: Eesti Kirjandus 2/1933, pp. 53–54.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 488.
  5. ↑ Jaan Puhvel: Ajaloo keetmise nõiakatel, in: Mana 4/1966, p. 49.
  6. ↑ Julius Mägiste: Asjaarmastuslik eestlaste eelajalugu, in: Tulimuld 2/1961, pp. 151–157.
personal data
SURNAME Saks, Edgar Valter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1984
Place of death Montreal