Jaan Jõgever

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Jaan Jõgever

Jaan Jõgever (born June 15 . Jul / 27. June  1860 greg. In Hindu (Saaremaa) ; † 6. November 1924 in Tartu ) was an Estonian linguist and lecturer and professor at the University of Tartu .

Education and professional career

Jõgever went to Riga after completing elementary school in his home parish in 1873, where he attended the spiritual school until 1877 and then the seminary. After he had freed himself from his father's wish to train him as a priest, he left the institution in 1882 without a degree. He completed his external Abitur in Tallinn and went to Tartu to study in 1883. There he started at the law faculty, but soon switched to the historical-linguistic department to study Slavic studies. After half a year in Saint Petersburg , he finished his studies in 1887 with a comparative thesis on the animal poses in Slavic and Finnish.

Jõgever began his professional career at Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium , where he was a Russian teacher from 1884 to 1889. He then worked for three years as a school inspector for the elementary schools in the school districts of Tallinn and Rakvere . From 1892 to 1903 he was a censor in Tartu, then an accountant at the mortgage company of Livonian cities (1903-1909) and again a teacher at the Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium, this time for Estonian. He held this post until 1920, while from 1909 he was also lecturer for Estonian at the University of Tartu.

After the independence of Estonia and the reopening of the university as an Estonian-speaking university, he took on the tasks of the (newly created) professorship for the Estonian language from 1919. In 1924 he was appointed full professor, but could not work long in this position because he died in the same year.

Other activities and cultural-historical significance

Jõgever was a member of the board of the Estonian Literary Society from 1885 to 1892 and edited its yearbooks. At the same time he was responsible editor from 1886 to 1890 of the monthly magazine Oma Maa ('Unser Land', 1884-1891), which was edited by Mihkel Veske (1884-1885) and Hugo Treffner (1886-1891).

In 1906 he founded the magazine Eesti Kirjandus ('Estonian Literature'), the first two volumes of which he paid for out of his own pocket. It was then taken over by the Estonian Literary Society , of which he was one of the founding members. He was also chairman of this society from 1922 to 1924.

Jõgever has also written and translated works of fiction. He also edited important collections on Estonian cultural history and was the author of textbooks and manual entries on Estonia for German and Russian encyclopedias.

Publications

  • Eesti muinasjutud . Jurjev: Postimees 1915. 119 pp.
  • Eesti keele häälikute ajalugu . Tartu: EK-Ü. Postimehe trükk 1918. 224 pp.
  • Eesti muinasjutud koolidele . Tartu: Eesti Kirjanduse seltsi Koolikirjanduse-toimkond 1924. 280 pp.

Literature on the author

  • MJ Eisen: Jaan Jõgever, in: Eesti Kirjandus 1924, pp. 465–475, 542.
  • H. Saari: "Grandma Maa" päevilt. Katkendid J. Jõgever päevikust, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 6/1960, pp. 364–369.
  • Leili Punga: Ühe keelemehe tegevusest. (125 aastat Jaan Jõgeveri sünnist), in: Emakeele Seltsi Aastaraamat 31 (1985), pp. 12-20.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leili Punga: Ühe keelemehe tegevusest, in: Emakeele Seltsi Aastaraamat 31 (1985), p. 12.
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 149.
  3. ↑ August Palm: Kuukirja "Eesti Kirjandus" asutamine ja algaastad, in: Eesti Kirjandus 5/1932, pp. 229-240.
personal data
SURNAME Jõgever, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindu
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1924
Place of death Tartu