Jakob Kõrv

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Jakob Kõrv (born November 21st July / December 3,  1849 greg. In Kokora , then parish Kodavere , Livonia ; †  September 6, 1916 in Bern , Switzerland ) was an Estonian publicist, writer, writer and journalist.

Life

Jakob Kõrv attended the parish school in Kodavere. From 1868 to 1874 he was employed as a teacher in Alatskivi before moving to Tartu . There he worked as an editor at the Estonian Agrarian Association ( Estonian Eesti Põllumeeste Selts ).

Through his acquaintance with the poet and publicist Mihkel Veske , Kõrv became socially and literary. 1881/82 Kõrv went as an assistant editor for the radical Estonian newspaper Sakala after Viljandi before in Rakvere newspaper valgus ( "Light") purchased and issued. From 1882 to 1906 the newspaper was headquartered in the Estonian capital Tallinn . In 1906 Kõrv sold the financially troubled newspaper to the Estonian publicist Karl August Hermann .

Jakob Kõrv became one of the most controversial and contradicting Estonian writers and journalists of his time. Initially, he encouraged interest in Estonian legends, fairy tales, folk poetry and mythology . With great dedication he collected Estonian sagas, folk poems and stories. In the 1880s, Kõrv was close to the nationally-minded Estonian journalist Carl Robert Jakobson and was one of his closest colleagues until his death in 1882. Before 1885, Kõrv had a strong influence on Jakobson's newspaper Sakala . Kõrv was also strongly active in the Estonian Literary Association ( Eesti Kirjameeste Selts ).

From 1887 onwards, Kõrv was increasingly critical of the Estonian national movement in the Age of National Awakening. From the end of the 1880s he particularly welcomed the attempts by the tsarist state power to implement a vehement russification policy in the Baltic States and Finland . At the same time, as the editor of the popular Valgus newspaper with a circulation of over 10,000, he had a considerable influence on opinion in Estonia. His friendship with the professor of Russian literature at the University of Tartu , Pawel Wiskowatow, was formative .

Through his petitions and intrigues with the authorities, Kõrv obtained a ban from the Estonian Literary Association in 1892/93, from which he had been expelled shortly before. Kõrv used his good contacts to the Russian rulers and the tsarist censorship authorities in Estonia more and more to keep unpleasant competitors cold because of alleged anti-subversive statements. On the other hand, Kõrv's strongly pro-Russian and reactionary stance mobilized the stand of Estonian intellectuals against Russification in order to strengthen their own Estonian national culture.

With the sale of his economically troubled newspaper Valgus , Kõrv withdrew from public life. In 1912 he moved to Switzerland. Jakob Kõrv died in 1916 in the insane, sanatorium and nursing home in Waldau near Bern. His ashes were transferred to Tallinn in 1981 and buried in the Rahumäe cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • Eesti-rahva muiste-jutud ja vanad-kõned (Folk Tales and Legends, 1881)
  • Veealused (German "Das Wasservolk", 1988)
  • Kaval Ants ja Vanapagan (Collection of Folk Stories, 1879–1886)
  • Kindel eesmärk (story, 1888)
  • Wene-Eestikeelne Sõnaraamat (Russian-Estonian dictionary, 1889)
  • Kiired kosjad (story, as book 1893; adaptation after André Theuriet )
  • Luigemäe Olli (1893, adaptation after François-René de Chateaubriand )
  • Mehe armastus (narration)
  • Öö ja koit (novel)

Jakob Kõrv also worked as a translator from Russian and German . He transferred, among others, Pushkin , Gogol and Herder to Estonian.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 206
  2. ↑ http://www.utlib.ee/ekollekt/eeva/index.php?lang=de&do=autor&aid=626
personal data
SURNAME Kõrv, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian publicist, man of letters, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Kokora , then parish of Kodavere , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1916
Place of death Bern , Switzerland