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Jakob Hurt

Died in 1907

Jakob Hurt was born on 22 July 1839 in Võrumaa, the son of a schoolmaster, studied theology at Tartu from 1859 to 1864 and took a doctorate at Helsinki in 1886. A secondary-school teacher at Kuressaare and Tartu, pastor at Otepää from 1872, he delivered a famous speech at the first song festival, in 1869, and presided over the Society of Estonian Literati from 1872 to 1881. Pastor of the Estonian St John's parish in Saint Petersburg from 1880 to 1901, he died there in January 1907 and was buried in Tartu.

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