Karl Rumor

Karl Ast, who wrote under the name Karl Rumor, was born on 19 February 1886 at the Päevakeste farm, in the parish of Orava, in Võrumaa. A pupil at the Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu, which he left without a diploma, he took part with his brother Gottlieb in the 1905 revolution, escaped the death penalty, was imprisoned from 1907 to 1910, then travelled around the Mediterranean and North Africa. A co-founder of the Social Democratic Party, he sat in parliament and was twice a member of the government. Estonian consul in Rio de Janeiro from 1941 to 1959, he moved to Canada, then to New York, where he died on 9 July 1971.

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• NovelKrutsifiksKarl Rumor · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature