Ilmar Talve

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Ilmar Talve, 2004

Ilmar Talve (born January 17, 1919 in Mga , then Petrograd Governorate , Soviet Russia ; † April 21, 2007 in Turku , Finland ) was an Estonian writer , literary scholar and ethnographer .

Life

Ilmar Talve was born in 1919 to Estonian parents in Ingermanland . A year later the family moved to Tapa in Estonia . In 1938 he graduated from the local high school. From 1938 to 1942 he studied ethnography, folk poetry, Estonian philology and literature at the University of Tartu . From 1940 he worked in the Estonian National Museum .

During the German occupation of Estonia, Ilmar Talve fled to Finland in 1943 before the German mobilization . There he took part in the Continuation War. Talve returned the following year, where the German occupation authorities arrested him and took him to Germany. He had to work as a foreign worker in a warehouse near Flensburg . In 1945 Talve fled to Sweden via Denmark .

From 1947 to 1951 studied Ilmar Talve Ethnography at the University of Stockholm , where he in 1960 with a thesis on the sauna for Dr. phil. PhD. From 1945 to 1954 and from 1957 to 1959 he was an employee of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm . From 1959 until his retirement in 1987 he was a lecturer at the University of Turku in Finland. From 1962 he worked as a professor in Turku.

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Ilmar Talve has written numerous works on Estonian, Finnish and Northern European ethnography. In 1979 his main work, Suomen kansankulttuuri, was published: Historiallisia päälinjoja on Finnish folk culture. In 2004 he published with Eesti kultuurilugu: Keskaja algusest Eesti iseseisvuseni a standard work on Estonian cultural history , which covers the period from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the state independence in 1918.

As early as the 1930s, Talve's first literary articles were published in Estonian feature pages . After his escape to Sweden, Talve belonged to the literary group Tuulisui . In 1948 he made his debut in Vadstena as a writer with the collection of novels Ainult inimene , in which he processed his experiences during the Second World War . Three novels followed. From 1997 to 1999 his memoirs appeared in three volumes.

Scientific work (selection)

  • Bastu och torkhus i Northern Europe (1960)
  • Den nordeuropeiska rian (1961)
  • Name and birthday traditions in Finland (1966)
  • Suomalaisen kansanelämän historialliset taustatekijät (1972)
  • Suomen kansanomaisesta ruokataloudesta (1973)
  • Suomen kultturirajoista ja -alueista (1976)
  • Suomen kansankulttuuri. Historiallisia päälinjoja. (1979)
  • Finnish Folklore (together with Veikko Anttila, 1980)
  • Vatjalaista kansankultturia (1981)
  • Morsiamesta nuorikoksi häiden rakenne itämerensuomalaisilla. The structure of the wedding ceremony in the Baltic Sea women. (1987)
  • Eesti kultuurilugu. Keskaja algusest Eesti iseseisvuseni (2004)

Literary work (selection)

  • Ainult inimene (collection of short stories, 1948)
  • Maja lumes (novel, 1952)
  • Juhansoni reisid (novel, 1959)
  • Maapagu (novel, 1988)

memories

  • Kevad Eestis (1997)
  • Kutsumatu külaline (1998)
  • Kolmas Kodumaa (1999)

Private life

Ilmar Talve was married to Liisa Marjatta Karvinen (1922–1966). The couple had two sons and a daughter.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 507f.
  2. http://www.aai.ee/~urmas/gen/01/f01865.html