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    Jakob Hurt (22 July [O.S. 10 July] 1839 in Himmaste – 13 January 1907 [O.S. 31 December 1906] in St Petersburg) was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian...
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    eestlane (Estonian). Schoolmaster Carl Robert Jakobson and clergyman Jakob Hurt became leading figures in a nationalist movement, encouraging Estonian...
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    Jakob Luke Dylan (born December 9, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. He rose to fame as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of...
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    Narva castle & Ivangorod fortress 1991, 1992, 1994 10 krooni €0.64 Red Jakob Hurt Tamme-Lauri oak tree 1991, 1992, 1994, 2006, 2007 25 krooni €1.60 Green...
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  • personalities were, among others, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Hans Wühner, Jakob Hurt, Carl Robert Jakobson, Hugo Treffner and Johann Köler. The aim of the...
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    transcription process in Estonia largely began following an appeal by Jakob Hurt to collect written Estonian folklore. Karl August Hermann subsequently...
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  • journalist and author Jakob Hurt (1839–1907), Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist James Hurt (born 1967), American pianist Joel Hurt (1850–1926), American...
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    Rahva Muuseum) founded 1909 in Tartu is a museum devoted to folklorist Jakob Hurt's heritage, to Estonian ethnography and folk art. The first items for the...
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    coordinated by Jakob Hurt, organising around 1,400 volunteer collectors through appeals, through the press, brochures and personal correspondence. Hurt had planned...
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    Estonia. Folklorist, theologist, linguist and national awakening figure Jakob Hurt (1839–1907) was born as the son of a local schoolteacher in Himmaste....
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  • EEK 5 Paul Keres The Narva river and the Jaanilinn stronghold EEK 10 Jakob Hurt The Tamme-Lauri oak at Urvaste EEK 25 A. H. Tammsaare A view of Vargamäe...
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  • founder of public education Johannes Hint (1914–1985), physicist, inventor Jakob Hurt (1839–1906), linguist, collector of folklore Paul Kogerman (1891–1951)...
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    Jakob Hurt (1839–1907). Estonian folklore had been previously collected by Baltic Germans, as a literary hobby or amateur linguistic activity. Jakob Hurt...
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    considered Estonia's symbol of independence. It was the place where in 1888 Jakob Hurt made the call to resist the Tsarist government's russification policy...
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    not been as strong as those for the Seto, Mulgi and Võro languages. Jakob Hurt's collection "Eesti mõtteloo" contains his sermons in the Rõngu dialect...
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  • Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 1903) 1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907) 1844 – William Archibald Spooner...
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  • translation. The president of The Society of the Estonian Literati, Pastor Dr. Jakob Hurt, considered the "king of Estonian folklore" began collecting Estonian...
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    smaller kannels. The kannel serves as a national symbol of Estonia; Jakob Hurt's 1875-1876 publication of Estonian folksongs was even entitled Vana Kannel...
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  • the Estonians, with such leaders as Carl Robert Jakobson (1841–1882), Jakob Hurt (1839–1907) and Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819–1890), became more ambitious...
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    undergraduate students and three Estonian intellectuals: Wilhelm Eisenschmidt Jakob Hurt Johann Voldemar Jannsen Andreas Kurrikoff Heinrich Rosenthal Gustav Treffner...
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  • Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1859) 1907 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839) 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish-Nigerian...
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    a denomination of the Estonian kroon, the former currency of Estonia. Jakob Hurt (1839–1907), who was an Estonian folklorist, theologian, linguist and...
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  • teacher Ita Ever (1931–) actress Jaan Einasto (1929–) astrophysicist Jakob Hurt (1839–1906) theologian Johannes Aavik (1880–1973) philologist Johannes...
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    "1969", written by Mehis Heinsaar (born in 1973), take place in Taagepera. Jakob Hurt, a folklorist and a linguist, also the excitor of the Estonian public...
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  • January 3 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (b. 1853) January 13 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist (b. 1839) January 14 –...
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    originated in the village of Himmaste, where a maternal uncle of Mihkel, Jakob Hurt, lived and worked as a tutor for the Middendorf family in Hellenurme....
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    the local newspapers, and taught at the gymnasium. After the death of Jakob Hurt in 1907, he became an advocate for the establishment of a museum devoted...
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  • Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher Germain Henri Hess, physician and chemist Jakob Hurt, folklorist Hermann Johansen, ornithologist Küllike Jürimäe, judge at...
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  • 1992–2010 Paul Keres 1916–1975 chess grandmaster Kroon 5 KR obverse 1992–2010 Jakob Hurt 1839–1907 folklorist, theologist and linguist Kroon 10 KR obverse 1992–2010...
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    and Finnic languages at an early age. Kallas assisted the folklorist Jakob Hurt in his epic collection of Estonian folk poetry. In 1889, he undertook...
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