Mihkel Veske
Mihkel Veske (* 16 January July / 28 January 1843 greg. In Holstre, then parish Vilimeeste, today rural municipality Paistu , district Viljandi , Estonia ; † 4 May July / 16 May 1890 greg. In Kazan ) was a Estonian poet and linguist .
Life
Mihkel Veske was born on the Veske farm in the village of Holstre (German Holstferhof ) in Central Estonia . He attended the village school in Pullerits, the parish school in Paistu and the grammar school in Tartu . He then went to the mission school in Leipzig in 1866/67 . In 1872 he completed his studies at the University of Leipzig with a doctorate. He published his doctorate in 1873 under the title Studies on the comparative grammar of the Finnish language stem . He then returned to Estonia and worked as a journalist for the Neue Dörptsche Zeitung and Eesti Põllumees newspapers.
From 1874 to 1887 Mihkel Veske was lecturer for the Estonian language at the University of Tartu and from 1878 to 1881 he taught Estonian at the Russian-speaking Tartu teachers' college. From 1886 until his untimely death in 1890, Veske was a lecturer in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan .
During the 1880s, Mihkel Veske was a leading proponent of the Estonian National Awakening. He belonged to the strongly nationalist groups around the Estonian intellectual and publicist Carl Robert Jakobson . From 1882 to 1886 Veske was President of the Estonian Literary Association ( Eesti Kirjameeste Selts ). In 1884 Veske founded the magazine Oma Maa ( The Own Country ).
Mihkel Veske was one of the first Estonian linguists to use the comparative historical method of linguistics. Between 1875 and 1884 he went on a summer trip to compare dialects. In 1880 he stayed in Finland , in 1885/86 in Hungary . He propagated a standard Estonian language based on the North Estonian dialect and phonetic spelling. During his time in Kazan he researched the Mari and Mordvin languages and studied the cultural relations between the Finno-Ugric and Slavic peoples . 1881–83 he created a textbook of the Finnish language in two volumes.
Mihkel Veske was brought home after his death. He is buried in the Uus-Jaani cemetery in Tartu. The bronze bust on his tombstone was made by the Estonian sculptor August Weizenberg (lost today).
Lyric poet
Mihkel Veske also appeared as a poet. His poetry is based on the simplicity of the popular Estonian Regilaul . He also collected folk poetry and folk songs. He translated numerous German, Russian, Finnish and Hungarian folk songs into Estonian.
Poetry collections
- Laulud Viisidega (1874)
- Dr. Veske Laulud (1899)
- Mihkel Veske laulud (1931)
literature
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 300f.
Web links
- Short biography, pictures, texts (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?Person=nimi&PYear=aasta&start=240&ItemID=176
- ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 599
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veske, Mihkel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weske, Mihkel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian poet and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holstre, then the parish of Vilimeeste, now the rural municipality of Paistu , Viljandi County , Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1890 |
| Place of death | Kazan |