{"id":1143,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/salu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:47:07","slug":"salu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/s\/salu\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Salu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novels <\/strong><\/a>\"Herbert<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Herbert Salu<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbert Salu <\/span>(Herbert Akatsius Salu, until 1936 Sallo, 15.\/2. XI 1911 \u2013 1. X 1988) was a literary scholar and novelist.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Viru-Jaagupi parish in northeast Estonia, attending schools in Varudi, Pikaristi, S\u00e4mi and Kohala, as well as the Rakvere teachers\u2019 seminary. He worked in several places as a teacher, studying in the faculty of philosophy of the University of Tartu, from 1935, with an interval, completing his master\u2019s degree in 1943 (his dissertation was on \u201cFolklore in the work of A.H. Tammsaare\u201d). In 1944 he fled to Finland, and the next year went on to Sweden. From 1947 to 1952 he studied at Lund, and from 1962 to 1964 at the University of Turku (with a doctorate on \u201cThe historical novels of Eduard Vilde\u201d in 1964). Herbert Salu was, among other positions, lecturer in Estonian at the University of Turku and reader in Estonian literature at the universities of Lund and Tampere. He died in Lund, and was buried at the Northern Cemetery there.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salu published poetry in the early thirties, and articles about literary history from the late thirties. There are also five biographical novels with a historical and cultural background. The novel \u00d5nneraha <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Lucky Money\u2019, 1953) deals with the influence of the Swedish era on Estonian education, concentrating on one pupil of the famous Forselius seminary, Ignati Jaak. The fictional diary of K\u00e4su Hans, author of the lament for the town of Tartu, destroyed in the Great Northern War, Oh! Ma waene Tardo liin <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Ah Me! Poor Tartu Town!\u2019), is presented in Surmatrummid ja pajupill <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Death-drums and Wwillow-whistle\u2019, 1954). Talvepaleest Lubjasaarele <\/span><\/i>(\u2018From the Winter Palace to Lubjasaare\u2019, 1966) focuses on the first professional Estonian artist, Johann K\u00f6ler; incidents in the life of Reiner Brockmann, the author of the first known poem in Estonian, are portrayed on the novels Lasnam\u00e4e lamburid <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Shepherds of Lasnam\u00e4e\u2019, 1978) and Siiditee serval<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(\u2018Alongside the Silk Road\u2019, 1986). Sembardia <\/span><\/i>(1996), which appeared posthumously, collects memories of Herbert Salu\u2019s youth and travelogues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies of literature, largely of an essay-like nature, make up the collections Tuul \u00fcle mere <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Wind Over the Sea\u2019, 1965), Kauged rannad ja oma saar <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Distant Shores and the Native Island\u2019, 1970), Posthobusel J\u00f5hvist Rooma <\/span><\/i>(\u2018By Post-horse from J\u00f5hvi to Rome\u2019, 1974; H. Visnapuu Foundation prize 1975), Porkuni preili <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Young Lady of Porkuni\u2019, 1978), Must lagi on meie toal <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Our Room has a Black Ceiling\u2019, 1980), Utoopia ja futuroloogia<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(\u2018Utopia and Futurology\u2019, 1972), Kihutav troika <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Speedy Troika\u2019, 1984). Earlier Estonian literature is surveyed in Eesti vanem kirjandus <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Older Literature of Estonia\u2019, 1953). Social problems in the works of Eduard Vilde are discussed in Kuhu p\u00e4ikene ei paista <\/span><\/i>(Where the Sun Doesn\u2019t Shine\u2019, 1981). His brief monograph Albert Kivikas <\/span><\/i>(1971) appeared in the \u2018Our authors\u2019 series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Novels<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em>
\u00d5nneraha<\/strong>: romaan Rootsi ajast. Toronto: Orto, 1953, 270 lk.
Surmatrummid ja pajupill<\/strong>: \u00fclest\u00e4hendusi Tartust Issanda Aastal 1704. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1954, 302 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1993.]
Talvepaleest Lubjasaarele<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1966, 287 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1995.]
Lasnam\u00e4e lamburid<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1978, 240 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2000.]
Siiditee serval<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1986, 203 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2000.]
Lasnam\u00e4e lamburid<\/strong>. Siiditee serval. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2000, 405 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary studies<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Eesti vanem kirjandus<\/strong>. Stockholm: T\u00f5rvik, 1953, 86 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1974.]
Tuul \u00fcle mere ja muid l\u00fchiuurimusi eesti kirjandusest<\/strong>. Stockholm: Vaba Eesti, 1965, 363 lk.
Kauged rannad ja oma saar: esseid eesti kirjandusest<\/strong>. Stockholm: Eesti Raamat, 1970, 375 lk.
Albert Kivikas: l\u00fchimonograafia<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1971, 63 lk.
Utoopia ja futuroloogia: l\u00fchiuurimusi kirjandusest<\/strong>. Lund, 1972, 128 lk.
Posthobusel J\u00f5hvist Rooma: esseid kirjandusest<\/strong>. Lund, 1974, 280 lk.
Porkuni preili: esseid eesti kirjandusest<\/strong>. Stockholm, 1978, 201 lk.
Must lagi on meie toal: esseid kirjandusest<\/strong>. Lund, 1980, 256 lk.
Kuhu p\u00e4ike ei paista: \u00fchiskondlikke probleeme Eduard Vilde loomingus<\/strong>. Stockholm: V\u00e4lis-Eesti & EMP, 1981, 155 lk<\/span><\/span>.
Kihutav troika: esseid kirjandusest<\/strong>. Stockholm: V\u00e4lis-Eesti & EMP, 1984, 204 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memoirs<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em>
Sembardia: noorp\u00f5lve- ja reisimeenutusi<\/strong>. Tartu: B. G. Forseliuse Selts, 1996, 136 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Herbert Salu<\/strong><\/em>
Ingrid Velbaum, Herbert Salu romaanide aegruumilistest seostest<\/strong>. \u2013 Tartu: Tartu \u00dclikool, 1991. [Diplomit\u00f6\u00f6.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novels About Herbert Salu Herbert Salu (Herbert Akatsius Salu, until 1936 Sallo, 15.\/2. XI 1911 \u2013 1. X 1988) was a literary scholar and novelist. He was born in Viru-Jaagupi parish in northeast Estonia, attending schools in Varudi, Pikaristi, S\u00e4mi …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":697,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1143\/revisions\/7401"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}