Under and Tuglas Literature Center
The Under and Tuglas Literature Center ( estn. Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus , abbreviated UTKK) is a research institute of the Estonian Academy of Sciences based in Tallinn .
Foundation and history
The forerunner of the institute was the Institute for Language and Literature (Estonian Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituut , abbr. KKI) founded in 1947 by the Academy of Sciences of the ESSR in Tartu , which moved to Tallinn in 1952. This pure research institute comprised three scientific areas: In the linguistic sector, one dealt with the creation of dictionaries and research into Estonian and the Finno-Ugric languages. In the literary sector, research was carried out on Estonian literature and the third area was devoted to folklore.
After Estonia's independence was restored in 1991, two successor institutes were founded in 1993. The Institute for Estonian Language was created to research the Estonian language , and literature was henceforth researched in the Under and Tuglas Literature Center , into which the Friedebert Tuglas Museum was also incorporated.
Naming
The Estonian writer Friedebert Tuglas bequeathed his estate (including a library with over 12,000 volumes and an art collection with over 1,000 works of art) to the Academy of Sciences in 1970 and at the same time expressed the wish that his last home should be turned into a museum. It is believed that he did this in gratitude for keeping his membership in the Academy of Sciences during the period of Stalinist reprisals, when he lost all offices and memberships. At that time he was living in a house in Nõmme , where Marie Under and Artur Adson had lived until they fled to Sweden in 1944 . The museum was established immediately after his death in 1971 and opened to the public in 1976. In 1993 this museum was merged with the literature department of the dissolved Institute for Language and Literature to form the newly founded Under and Tuglas Literature Center .
Goals and areas of responsibility
In addition to preserving the legacy of Tuglas, which is kept in the museum in Nõmme, the main task of the institute is to research all literature that has been written in the area of what is now Estonia. For the earlier centuries, this also explicitly includes studying German Baltic literature.
The research center regularly holds international conferences and publishes several book series.
Directors
1993–1996 (provisional) Piret Kruuspere
1996-2000 Toomas Liiv
2000– Jaan Undusk
Secondary literature
- Eeva Ahven: Pilk paberpeeglisse. Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituudi kroonika 1947–1993. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus 2007.
Web links
(Estonian) Homepage of the institute.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eeva Ahven: Pilk paberpeeglisse. Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituudi kroonika 1947–1993. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus 2007.
- ↑ https://www.utkk.ee/meist/ajalugu/