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Short stories\u00a0and novellas<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Eduard<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Eduard Bornh\u00f6he<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eduard Bornh\u00f6he (real name Brunberg, 17.\/5. II 1862 \u2013 17. XI 1923), Estonian author, prose writer, whose most important works include historical romantic tales of adventure. They have shaped the historical consciousness of succeeding generations, and have found a place as Estonian literary classics and school-age reading matter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born on the Kullaaru estate in Virumaa, the son of an estate servant. From 1872 to 1874 he attended W. Kentmann\u2019s primary school in Tallinn, thereafter until 1877 at a county school. He held various jobs in several places; he was an apprentice in a commercial office, a surveyor\u2019s assistant, a railway station clerk, a sacristan and schoolmaster, a tutor and a theatre critic. In 1888, as an external student, he passed the final examinations at the Tallinn Governorate Gymnasium, and in 1889 he enrolled to study Estonian philology at Tartu University. Having curtailed his studies for financial reasons, Bornh\u00f6he continued his peripatetic life, holding various jobs in Russia, Poland and Germany. Having returned home for good, in 1893 he started work at Tallinn Circuit Court as an interpreter and in 1901 as an archivist. From 1907 to 1917 he worked as the chairman of the supreme peasant court in J\u00f5hvi, and then as city secretary and people\u2019s judge in Narva. In 1919 he moved to Tallinn, where he held the post of Justice of the Peace until his death. Bornh\u00f6he was buried in Kopli cemetery; in 1951 he was reinterred at Metsakalmistu Cemetery in Tallinn. His cousin was the well-known Estonian writer Eduard Vilde.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tasuja<\/em> (\u2018The Avenger\u2019, 1880), which he wrote at the age of 17, is the first original Estonian historical narrative, which became a precursor of other historical novels of the late 19th and early 20th century. In the tale, which deals with the St. George\u2019s Night Uprising of 1343, Bornh\u00f6he expressed the patriotic fighting spirit and hunger for freedom of a small nation. The author, in the spirit of romanticism, is guided not only by historical sources (the author relied on Balthasar Russow\u2019s [1578] and Christian Kelch\u2019s [1695] chronicles) while depicting the past, but\u00a0 creates a colourful and exalted treatment of the Estonian\u2019s heroic struggle for freedom against the Baltic German feudal overlords. Against a background of social and political clashes he depicts the experiences arising from the main protagonist Jaanus\u2019, or the Avenger\u2019s, status as a yeoman, and from his unhappy love match, which turn into a revenge on all the landlords.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subsequent historical works, Villu v\u00f5itlused<\/em> (\u2018The Struggles of Villu\u2019, 1890) and V\u00fcrst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed p\u00e4evad<\/em> (\u2018Duke Gabriel, or the Last Days of the Pirita Convent\u2019, 1893) continue the trend of romantic historical fiction. The latter, an adventure novel based on Balthasar Russow\u2019s chronicle, tells of the peasant uprising against the background of the events of the Livonian War in the second half of the 16th century in Tallinn and its environs. Based on the novel, the well-received featured film Viimne reliikvia<\/em> (\u2018The Last Relic\u2019, 1979, directed by Grigori Kromanov) is captivating with its exciting subject-matters, noble heroes and idealistic songs of freedom, which even today are part of the Estonian\u2019s song repertoire.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides historical prose, Bornh\u00f6he wrote circumstantially realistic stories on contemporary subjects. In the book Tallinna narrid ja narrikesed<\/em> (\u2018Fools and Buffoons on Tallinn\u2019, 1892), consisting of short satirical pieces, he satirizes self-styled inventors who call themselves intellectual giants, uncultured writers and their unoriginal creations. He deals with the living conditions of officials of different social status and their outmoded ways in the realistic short novel Kollid<\/em> (\u2018The Bugbears\u2019, 1903). Bornh\u00f6he shaped the tradition of Estonian travel writing with the book Usur\u00e4ndajate radadel<\/em> (\u2018Following the Footsteps of the Pilgrims\u2019, 1899), in which he tells in high figurative style of the peoples of the Middle East and their cultures, criticizing the colonialists\u2019 ambitions of power in the process. He published Estonian-language abridged adaptations of Defoe\u2019s Robinson Crusoe<\/em> (1891) and Cervantes\u2019 Don Quixote<\/em> (1900). Withdrawing from literary activity, he published no further books in the last two decades of his life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. O. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novellas and <\/strong><\/em>s<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>hort stories<\/em><\/strong>
<\/span><\/span>R\u00f6\u00f6vel ja m\u00f5isnik<\/strong>. Tartu: H.\u00a0Laakmann, 1878, 112 lk.
Tasuja<\/strong>. Tallinn: A.\u00a0E.\u00a0Brandt, 1880, 147 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: Tartu: M.\u00a0Vares, 1888 146 lk, Jurjev: M.\u00a0Vares, 1900, 132 lk; Tallinn: Teadus, 1915, 97 lk; Tallinn: Kool, 1921 117 lk; Tallinn: Kool, 1922, 117 lk; Tartu: Loodus, 1935, 135 lk; Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1945, 108 lk; Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1947, 118 lk; Vadstena: Orto, 1947, 100 lk; Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1948, 128 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1967, 88 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1971 169 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1984, 88 lk; Columbia: Cultural Models, 1996, 232 lk; Kuressaare: TormiKiri, 1998, 379 lk; Tallinn: Mixi Kirjastus, 1999, 102 lk; Tallinn: Ilo, 2005, 103 lk; Tallinn: Ilo, 2008, 103 lk; Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2008, 127 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus, 2010, e-raamat; Tartu: Lutsu-nimeline Linnaraamatukogu, 2011, e-raamat; Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2017, 110 lk, 2025, 2025.]
Lindanissa<\/strong>. Tallinn: A.\u00a0E.\u00a0Brandt, 1882, 64 lk.
Villu v\u00f5itlused<\/strong>. Tallinn: K.Busch, 1890, 112 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad v\u00e4ljaanded: Tallinn: Kool, 1921, 101 lk; Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1946, 100 lk; Vadstena: Orto,1949, 127 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1971, 169 lk; Kuressaare: TormiKiri, 1998, 379 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus, 2010, e-raamat; Tartu: Lutsu-nimeline Linnaraamatukogu, 2011, e-raamat.]
Tallinna narrid ja narrikesed<\/strong>. Tallinn: K.\u00a0Busch, 1892, 96 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad v\u00e4ljaanded: Tallinn: Varrak, 1993, 76 lk; 2021]
V\u00fcrst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimased p\u00e4evad<\/strong>. Tallinn: G.\u00a0Pihlakas, 1893, 96 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: Tallinn: G. Pihlakas, 1898, 240 lk; Tallinn: G. Pihlakas, 1920, 240 lk; Tallinn: G. Pihlakas, 1929, 200 lk; Tartu: Elmatar, 1996, 170 lk; Kuressaare: TormiKiri, 1998, 379 lk; Tallinn: TormiKiri, 2008, 166 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus, 2010, e-raamat; 2012, Tallinn: ImmiSoft, 2016, 72 lk; 2023.]
Kollid<\/strong>. Tallinn: M.\u00a0Schiffer, M.\u00a0Antje, 1903, 146 lk. [J\u00e4rgnev v\u00e4ljaanne: Tartu: Lutsu-nimeline Linnaraamatukogu, 2012, e-raamat.]
Kuulsuse narrid<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pedagoogiline Kirjastus, 1941, 52 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1951, 48 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974, 39 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981, 36 lk; Tallinn: Mixi Kirjastus, 2006, 26 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Digiraamatute Keskus, 2010, e-raamat.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A travelogue<\/em><\/strong>
Usur\u00e4ndajate radadel<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Postimees, 1899, 144 lk. [J\u00e4rgnev v\u00e4ljaanne: Tallinn: Digira, 2012, e-raamat.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected and collected works<\/em><\/strong>
E.\u00a0Bornh\u00f6he kirjat\u00f6\u00f6de kogu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Keyler ja Poeg, 1905\u20131906, 772 lk. [Ilmunud annetena 1-24. Kaasanne v\u00e4ljaandele Uus Aeg. Sisu: \u2018Tasuja\u2019, \u2018Willu v\u00f5itlused\u2019, \u2018Tallinna narrid\u2019, \u2018Orelim\u00e4ngija\u2019, \u2018\u00dcks leht \u201cvana pagana\u201d t\u00e4htraamatust\u2019, \u2018Aadam ja Eewa\u2019, \u2018Aischa\u2019, \u2018J\u00f5ulu-\u00f6\u00f6 Petlemmas\u2019, \u2018W\u00fcrst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri wiimsed p\u00e4ewad\u2019, \u2018Anni neitsip\u00f5lv\u2019, \u2018Kollid\u2019.]
Ajaloolised jutustused<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1952, 356 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Tasuja\u2019, \u2018Villu v\u00f5itlused\u2019, \u2018V\u00fcrst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimased p\u00e4evad\u2019. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1953, 323 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1959, 468 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1964, 348 lk; Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1977, 316 lk.]
Teosed I:<\/strong>\u00a0Tallinna jutud<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1962, 343 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Anni neitsip\u00f5lv\u2019, \u2018Tallinna narrid ja narrikesed\u2019, \u2018Aadam ja Eeva\u2019, \u2018Lihav\u00f5ttekink\u2019, \u2018Orelim\u00e4ngija\u2019, \u2018J\u00f5uluingel\u2019, \u2018Kollid\u2019.]
Teosed II: Jutud ja reisikirjad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1963, 420 lk. [Sisu: \u2018\u00dcks leht \u00abvanapagana\u00bb t\u00e4htraamatust\u2019, \u2018Labajalavalss laeva peal\u2019, \u2018Surmasuus\u2019, \u2018Must plaaster\u2019, \u2018Liisi peigmees\u2019, \u2018J\u00f5ulu\u00f6\u00f6 Petlemmas\u2019, \u2018Ai\u0161a\u2019, \u2018Teekond \u00d5htu-Euroopas\u2019, \u2018Usur\u00e4ndajate radadel\u2019, \u2018Tallinnast Nuustakule\u2019, \u2018Volgal\u2019, \u2018\u00d6ine postis\u00f5it Eestimaal\u2019, \u2018Buduaar ja tsirkus\u2019, \u2018Valimik kirju\u2019.]
Teosed III: Ajaloolised jutustused<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1964, 348 lk.\u00a0[Sisu: \u2018Tasuja\u2019, \u2018Villu v\u00f5itlused\u2019, \u2018V\u00fcrst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimased p\u00e4evad\u2019.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Eduard Bornh\u00f6he<\/strong><\/em>
Endel Nirk, Eduard Bornh\u00f6he. Kirjanik ja inimene<\/strong>. \u2013 Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1961, 140 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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