Ferdinand Linnus
Ferdinand Linnus , until 1935: Ferdinand Leinbock ; (* 8 May July / 20 May 1895 greg. In Riidaja (German: Morsel Podrigel ), Parish Helme ( Helmet ), Viljandi County , Livonia , today: Estonia ; † February 23, 1942 in Sukhobesvodnoje , Gorky Oblast , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian ethnologist .
Life
Leinbock was the son of a tailor. He graduated from the Alexander High School in 1915 in Tartu ( Dorpat ), Livonia , and began studying history at the University of Tartu . In 1917 he was drafted into the Russian Army and took part in the First World War.
He then fought in the Estonian War of Independence as a lieutenant from 1918 to 1920 and was awarded the Freedom Cross by the Estonian government. From 1920 to 1922 he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture of the young Republic of Estonia.
In 1921 he continued his studies in Tartu. From 1922 he worked at the Estonian National Museum , whose director he was from 1929 until he was deported to Russia in 1941.
Leinbock's degree in ethnology in 1926 was followed by a master's degree in the same subject at the University of Tartu in 1927 . Linnus defended his dissertation on the topic of archaic forms of Estonian beekeeping, Part I, beekeeping in the forests in 1938. He was the first Estonian to obtain a doctorate in ethnology.
The Soviet occupation authorities arrested Linnus after the German attack on the Soviet Union began in June 1941. They accused him of espionage. Linnus died in a Soviet prison camp in Gorky Oblast in February 1942.
Scientific work
Leinbock worked in the first years on ethnographic field research of the islanders off the coast of Estonia and later he did research with the Lives in Courland in Latvia .
Publication (selection)
- Eestlaste aineline kultuur ja rahvausund orduajal. (1937)
- Eesti vanem mesindus. I. Metsamesindus. (1938)
- Estonian ethnography for the past five years. Balticoslavica, T.III, Wilna 1938 pp. 128-135.
Private life
In 1935 he took the estonized family name Linnus. Ferdinand Linnus was married to the teacher Olga Elisabeth Linnus (born Mirka, 1896–1968). Linnus' son Jüri Linnus (1926–1995) became an ethnologist like his father and worked from 1956 to 1986 at the State Ethnographic Museum of the Estonian SSR , now the Estonian National Museum in Tartu.
literature
- Kristin Kuutma, Tiiu Jaago: Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology. A Reader and Reflexive History. University of Tartu Press, Tartu 2005, ISBN 9949-11-110-2 .
Web links
- biography
- Works by Ferdinand Linnus in the holdings of the Estonian National Library
- place of birth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linnus, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leinbock, Ferdinand (original name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riidaja , Parish of Helme , Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1942 |
| Place of death | Sukhobesvodnoye , Gorky Oblast , Soviet Union |