Indrek Juerjo

Indrek Jürjo (born April 14, 1956 in Tallinn (German: Reval); † May 29, 2009 on the island of Muhu (German: Moon), both in Estonia ) was an Estonian historian .

Life

Jürjo graduated from the 10th Tallinn High School in 1974 and was then a construction soldier in the Soviet Army from 1974 to 1976 . From 1977 he studied history at Tallinn University until 1983. From 1983 to 1992 he was employed at the Estonian Academy of Sciences (Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia). From 1992 he was in the service of the Estonian Archives Administration, where from 2002 until his death he headed the publications department of the Estonian State Archives (Eesti Riigiarhiiv).

Jürjo obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Tallinn University of Education in 1998 and received his doctorate in 2005 from the University of Hamburg with his thesis August Wilhelm Hupel and the Enlightenment in Livonia

Publications (selection)

• with Otto-Heinrich Elias : Enlightenment in the Baltic provinces of Russia: Ideology and social reality , in: Sources and studies on Baltic history, Volume 15; Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1996. ISBN 3-412-08596-0 .
• Liivimaa valgustaja August Wilhelm Hupel: 1737 - 1819 , Riigiarhiiv, Tallinn 2004. ISBN 9985-9510-1-8 .
  • German: Enlightenment in the Baltic States: life and work of the Livonian scholar August Wilhelm Hupel (1737–1819) . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2006. ISBN 3-412-30805-6 .
• About the persecution of the Baltic Germans in what is now East Germany after the Second World War . Shown using the example of two KGB files from the Estonian State Archives , in: Norbert Angermann et al .: Baltic Sea Provinces , Baltic States and the National . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005. ISBN 3-8258-9086-4 . Pp. 611-634.
• as editor with Sergej Stadnikov: Letters from the Orient: Otto Friedrich von Richter's research trip in the years 1814 - 1816 . Kovač, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8300-7289-8 .

Web links

• Obituary of the Baltic Historical Commission