Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (born December 26, 1803 Jömper/Jõepere manor near Sankt Katharinen/Kadrina, Virumaa/Wierland county - died August 25, 1882 Tartu) was an Estonian writer and physician. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald File links The following pages link to this file: Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald Categories: Images with unknown source ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Kadrina Commune is located at the Western part of the Lääne-Viru County in Estonia. ... Virumaa (Vironia , Wierland) can mean Ida-Viru County or Eastern Virumaa - a county of Estonia Lääne-Viru County or Western Virumaa - a county of Estonia For prehistoric Estonian province and tribe, see Vironians. ... Virumaa (Vironia, Wierland) can mean Ida-Viru County or Eastern Virumaa - a county of Estonia Lääne-Viru County or Western Virumaa - a county of Estonia For prehistoric Estonian province and tribe, see Vironians. ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German and Polish: Dorpat) is the second largest city of Estonia, with a population of 100,482 (census data as of 2004) with an area of 38. ...

As all common Estonians, his parents were serfdom peasants (his father working as a shoemaker) at that time. Having been liberated in 1815, the familiy was able to send the son into the district school in Rakvere. In 1820 he graduated at secondary school in Tallinn, and worked as a elementary-school teacher in Tallinn. 1824-25 he was governor in St. Petersburg. In 1833 he graduated from University of Tartu at the faculty of medicine. 1833-77 worked as a physician in Võru (Southern Estonia). Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. ... Categories: 1911 Britannica | Historical stubs | Feudalism ... Rakvere (Wesenbergh in German) is a town in North Estonia, county seat of Lääne-Viru County, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland. ... The city of Tallinn is the capital city and main seaport of Estonia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... The University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ülikool, German: Universität Dorpat) is the national university of Estonia, and the one classical university in Estonia, located in the city of Tartu. ...

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Author of several moralistic folk books, most of them are adaptions of the same in German ("Plague of Wine",1840; "The world and Some Things One can Find in It",1848-49; "Reynard the Fox",1850; "Wise Men of Gotham", 1857 etc). In addition to his main work, Estonian national epics (based on traditional Estonian folklore) "The Kalevipoeg" ('Kalev's Son') published "The Old Estonian Fairy-Tales" (1866), collections of verses and poem "Lembitu", (1885), published after his death already. EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation Sometimes it is also used to refer to Epic Games game development company. ... For the Nelly Furtado album, see Folklore (album). ... Kalevipoeg is an epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald held to be the Estonian national epic. ...

Kreutzwald was the member of numerous scientific societies in Europe and doctor h. c. of different universities. The importance of Kreutzwald as the author of almost the first original Estonian book, which the epics was, can't to be compared. Kreutzwald was one of the leaders of the National Awakening in Estonia, too, as well as paragon and encourager of younger generations of the Estonian-speaking intelligence. EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation Sometimes it is also used to refer to Epic Games game development company. ...