Jakob Hurt
Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist (1839-1907) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 67
Jakob Hurt was an Estonian folklorist, nationalist, and theologian. He was a major figure in the Estonian national awakening and worked as a pastor in Otepää and Saint Petersburg.
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While he was president of the Society of Estonian Literati, he oversaw a project to collect hundreds of thousands of works of poetry and folklore in the Estonian language. Hurt was featured on the 10 krooni note from 1991 to 2012.
