# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaan-karner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:32:14.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaan-karner"
name: "Jaan Kärner"
slug: "jaan-karner"
description: "Jaan Kärner was an Estonian poet and writer. He is known especially for his nature poetry. Many of his poems were set to music by Estonian composers of choral music. Kärner also wrote numerous novels, plays, works of literary criticism, and scientific literature and historical treatises. He translated works from German and Russian, most notably the poems of Heinrich Heine into Estonian in 1934."
tagline: "Estonian writer and politician (1891–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner_1911.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1891-05-27"
deathDate: "1958-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.268430666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/343299fe-af66-409b-8536-bf7557286a33"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چان كارنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Яан Кярнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner"
    title: "Jaan Kärner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner"
    title: "Jaan Kärner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner"
    title: "Jaan Kärner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner"
    title: "Jaan Kärner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_K%C3%A4rner"
    title: "Jaan Kärner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AF%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Кярнер, Яан Карлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1676764"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump