Jaan Rummo

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Jaan Rummo (born August 22 . Jul / 3. September  1897 greg. In kalbų , community Kehtna ; † 24. November 1960 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian journalist , translator and organizer of Estonian children's literature .

Life

Jaan Rummo went to school in Kehtna and Järvakandi and from 1913 to 1917 attended the teachers' college in Rakvere . He then worked for over twenty years in the school service and from 1926 to 1936 at the same time director of the Tallinn Adult Education Center.

From 1937 to 1947 Rummo worked for the Estonian Radio and mainly dealt with literature and children's programs . During the German occupation of Estonia in World War II , Rummo was temporarily imprisoned by the Nazis. After the war he was at the publishing house Ilukirjandus ja Kunst ('Beautiful Literature and Art') and from 1950 at the successor publisher Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus ('Estonian State Publishing House ') editor for children's literature. From 1953 Rummo worked in the editorial department of various children's and youth magazines.

The writer Paul Rummo was his brother.

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Before the war, Rummo published a handbook on rhetoric, which had several editions. After the Sovietization of Estonia, he turned out to be a supporter of the new regime, which "propagated the theoretical foundations of Soviet literature", as can also be seen in a pamphlet from 1948. The author is likely to have had the most lasting effect as a translator of Russian children's literature. Among other things, he has translated fairy tales and works by Sergei Wladimirowitsch Michalkow .

bibliography

  • Kõneoskus ('rhetoric'). Tallinn: Ühiselu 1932. 163 pp.
  • Kirjandus noorte kasvatusvahendina ('Literature as a means of educating young people'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1948. 40 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Ralf Parve: Jaan Rummo 80th sünnipäeval, in: Looming 9/1977, pp. 1579–1581.
  • Vaapo Vaher: Rummod ja Hiiumaa, in: Looming 1/2013, pp. 103–121.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 543.
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 478.
  3. ↑ Ralf Parve: Jaan Rummo 80. sünnipäeval, in: Looming 9/1977, p. 1579.
  4. ↑ Andres Jaaksoo: Kes on kes ja mis on mis eesti lastekirjanduses. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1987, p, 195.
personal data
SURNAME Rummo, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalbu
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1960
Place of death Tallinn