Estonian Literary Society
The Estonian Literary Society ( Estonian Eestimaa Kirjanduse Ühing ) was founded by Baltic Germans in Reval in 1842 as a learned society for the research of Estonian and Livonian history. The company continued to operate until 1940. The seat of the society was the Toompea , the seat of today's Estonian Academy of Sciences .
From 1844 the society published in the "Archive for the history of Liv, Ehst and Kurland" edited by Friedrich Georg von Bunge , which from the third volume with the note "With the support of the Ehstländ. Lit. Society ”appeared.
In 1859 the society founded its own organ, the "Mittheilungen der Ehstländische Literärische Gesellschaft", to publish its own lectures. However, only one issue was published under this title in 1860 and 1861.
From 1867 the society published the "Contributions to the customer of Ehst, Liv and Kurland", of which a total of 7 volumes and issue 1 of volume 8 were published. After an interruption from 1915 to 1923, the "Contributions to Estonia's Customer" appeared from 1923.
In 1896, the Section for the Preservation of Local Antiquities was established. In this way, the company did justice to the increased historical interest of a wider audience.
The main focus was on the documentation and preservation of local monuments as well as the implementation of archaeological excavations.
From the beginning of the 20th century a closer cooperation with the Baltic German historians of the other Baltic Sea provinces became apparent. The First Baltic Historians ' Day was held in Riga in 1908 , and the Second Baltic Historians' Day followed in Tallinn in 1912.
See also
literature
- Literature from and about the Estonian Literary Society in the Common Union Catalog.
- Hellmuth Weiss : The historical societies. In: Georg von Rauch (Hrsg.): History of Baltic German historiography (= East Central Europe in the past and present. 20). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1986, ISBN 3-412-05085-7 , pp. 121-139, here pp. 131-136.
- Indrek Jürjo : The Estonian Literary Society 1842-1918. In: Jörg Hackmann (Ed.): Club culture and civil society in Northeast Europe. Regional specifics and European connections. = Associational culture and civil society in North Eastern Europe (= sources and studies on Baltic history. 20 = publications by the Academia Baltica. 2 = publications by the Aue Foundation. 26). Böhlau, Wien et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20136-4 , pp. 129–178, doi : 10.7788 / boehlau.9783412215293.129 .