Anton Hansen Tammsaare

Anton Hansen, who signed himself A. H. Tammsaare after his father's farm, was born on 30 January 1878 in Vetepere, in Järvamaa, the fourth of ten children. A journalist from 1903 to 1907, he studied law at Tartu until tuberculosis stopped him in 1911: he lived with his brother at Koitjärve and in 1912 and 1913 spent a period of treatment in the Caucasus, the only journey of his life outside the country. Married in 1919, he settled in Tallinn and lived by his pen. He translated Wilde, Conrad, Hamsun and Dostoevsky. He died in Tallinn on 1 March 1940, aged sixty-two.

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• NovelTruth and JusticeTõde ja õigusAnton Hansen Tammsaare · 1926LiteraturePublic domain