Jakob Pärn

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Jakob Pärn (* October 18 . Jul / 30 October 1843 greg. In Torma , † September 23 jul. / October 6th, 1916 greg. In Elva ) was an Estonian writer and educator.

Life

Jakob Pärn attended school in Torma, East Estonia, where he made the acquaintance of the Estonian publicist Carl Robert Jakobson , whose father was Pärn's school teacher. Later Pärn worked on Jakobson's newspaper Sakala . Pärn studied from 1865 to 1869 at the teachers' college in Tartu, Livonia (German Dorpat ). From 1869 to 1871 he worked as a teacher in Põltsamaa ( Oberpahlen ) and from 1871 to 1882 in Lihula ( Leal ). From 1883 to 1908 he directed the parish school in Vana-Otepää ( Alt-Odenpäh ). He then worked as a teacher at the teachers' college in Valmiera ( Wolmar ) until shortly before his death . Jakob Pärn is buried today in the Raadi cemetery in Tartu.

plant

Jakob Pärn is remembered above all as a prominent representative of the Estonian national consciousness in the age of the national awakening. He called for the end of Estonian foreign rule and published numerous useful educational publications, textbooks and newspaper articles.

He also represented Estonian patriotic ideas in his literary work. In addition to moralizing children's books, educational writings and memoirs, Pärn's stories in particular have become known. In 1879 he made his debut as a prose writer with the story Uni ei anna uuta kuube, magamine maani särki . His most important works include the stories Oma tuba, oma luba ehk Lahvardi Kristjani ja metsavahi Leenu armastuse lugu (1879), Wilhelm (1879), Juhan ja Adele (1879), Lahtine aken (1882), Must kuub (1883) and Jumala abiga omast jõust (1884).

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 317-319.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.miksike.ee/docs/lisa/9klass/2teema/kirjandus/kirjanikud_6.htm
  2. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 391
  3. ↑ The story was also translated into Swedish during Pärn's lifetime and, as the first Estonian-language story, into Finnish
personal data
SURNAME Pärn, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Torma
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1916
Place of death Elva