Karl Eduard Soot
Karl Eduard Sööt (* December 14th July / December 26th 1862 greg. In Lohkva , Livonia ; † September 1, 1950 in Tartu , Estonian SSR ) was an Estonian poet .
life and work
Karl Eduard Sööt was born in the Livonian village of Lohkva (German Lofkatten ) near Tartu ( Dorpat ) as the son of a mill tenant. At the age of six the family moved to Ilmatsalu . Sööt first attended the German-speaking primary school in Tartu and from 1878 to 1881 the district school. Then he was a guest student at the University of Tartu , which was then called the Imperial University of Dorpat .
Sööt initially worked as a community clerk for a short time. From 1886 to 1896 he worked in the editorial department of the Estonian magazine Olevik ("The Present"), which was published by Ado Grenzstein . In the 1880s he made his debut with his first poems in Estonian newspapers. From 1895 to 1914 Sööt was the owner of a printing company he founded and a bookstore. Shortly before the First World War , he sold his company.
After Estonian independence was proclaimed, Sööt was a member of the city administration of Tartu in 1919/20, but then withdrew from political life. From 1920 to 1923 he was the editor-in-chief of the most important Estonian daily newspaper Postimees . He then earned his living as a freelance writer and poet.
Emotional love, homeland and nature poems as well as (late) romantic elegies and ballads predominate in his work . Quite a few of his poems were set to music by Estonian composers. He took up numerous motifs from Estonian folk (song) poetry in his poetry. His children's poems are now part of the classical repertoire of Estonian literature . Sööt also translated poems by Heinrich Heine , whose work influenced him, and Sándor Petőfi into Estonian .
Sööt was active in numerous Estonian cultural associations. He was a member of the board of the Vanemuine Society in Tartu , co-founder of the Estonian Literary Society ( Eesti Kirjanduse Selts ), board member of the Estonian National Museum ( Eesti Rahva Muuseum ) and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Petőfi Society ("Petőfi Társaság").
In his birthplace Lohkva there is a monument to Karl Eduard Sööt, erected in 1977. Another memorial stone was dedicated in Ilmatsalu, where Karl Eduard Sööt spent his childhood and youth.
The rural community of Luunja has been awarding a literary prize named after Karl Eduard Sööt since 2007. It is awarded annually for a lyric work for children.
Literary work
Volumes of poetry
- Aasa õied (two volumes, 1890/91)
- Rõõm ja mure (1894)
- Saatus (1899)
- Mälestused ja lootused (1903)
- Kodu (1921)
- Lapsepõlve Kungla (poetry for children, 1923)
- Kuusirbi õsu (1937)
Selection collections
- Aastate kajastus (1925)
- Kogutud luuletused (1942)
- Valitud luuletused (1946)
- Elurada (posthumous, 1951)
- Väike luuleraamat (posthumously, 1968)
Secondary literature
- Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 308f.
Web links
- CV, pictures, texts (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.miksike.ee/docs/lisakogud/kirjandus/soot.htm
- ↑ http://www.estonica.org/en/Estonian_children%E2%80%99s_literature/Rapid_development_of_children%E2%80%99s_literature/
- ↑ Eesti elulood. Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 498f. (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14)
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 242
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sööt, Karl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lohkva , Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1950 |
| Place of death | Tartu , Estonian SSR |