Author · Estonia
Kristjan Jaak Peterson
Died in 1822
Kristjan Jaak Peterson was born on 14 March 1801 in Riga, the son of a bell-ringer and servant of St James's Church who came from the parish of Karula, near Viljandi. At the Riga gymnasium he completed in three years the four-year course and learned many languages; he studied in 1819 and 1820 at the University of Tartu, theology and then philosophy, and returned to Riga without a degree. There he lived on lessons and on articles for Rosenplänter's journal, and translated Ganander's Mythologia Fennica into German. He died of tuberculosis on 4 August 1822, aged twenty-one. His birthday has become the day of the Estonian language.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryOde to the MoonKuuKristjan Jaak Peterson · 1922LiteraturePublic domain