Eduard Bornhöhe

Eduard Brunberg, who wrote under the name Bornhöhe, was born on 17 February 1862 at the Kullaaru estate in Virumaa, the son of a manor servant; his mother was the elder sister of Eduard Vilde's mother. Having left the Tallinn district school at fifteen, he worked as an assistant surveyor, station clerk, sacristan and schoolmaster, tutor, and theatre critic. Admitted to the gymnasium as an external candidate in 1888, he began studies in Estonian philology at Tartu, abandoned them for lack of money, worked in Russia, Poland and Germany, then served in the judiciary until his death in Tallinn on 17 November 1923.

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