Harry Jannsen
Harry Jannsen (actually Heinrich Voldemar Amandus , also Heinrich Woldemar Amandus , pseudonyms EB Lanin , HJ, H. von Ensian , Konrad Walther ; born on November 13, 1851 in Pärnu (Pernau); died on October 13, 1913 in Tallinn ) was a Estonian journalist, civil servant and one of the founders of Estonian theater.
Life and origin
Harry Jannsen was the third son of Johann Voldemar Jannsen . Harry Jannsen studied linguistics, philosophy and literature at the University of Tartu (University of Dorpat; cand. Phil., 1881) and then art history in Germany. From 1879-1881 he worked for the weekly paper Eesti Postimees . He rejected the radical patriotism of Carl Robert Jakobson and founded his own daily newspaper Die Heimath in Tallinn in 1882 . Since he advocated his concept of "Balticism". Harry Jannsen later worked as a state official of the Tsarist Empire in Riga and St. Peterburg, including as a censor of German-language newspapers.
Under the pseudonym "Konrad Waltheri" he published the songbook of a Baltic in German (1880, it also contained translations of poems by Lydia Koidulas ), and he also published the poetry collection Keisri ja isamaa laulud (1889, (Songs of the Emperor and the Fatherland) ). .
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