{"id":5571,"date":"2024-09-24T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/?page_id=5571"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:24:06","slug":"henno-rajandi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/r\/henno-rajandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Henno Rajandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br>Henno Rajandi (until 1935 Henno-Joonatan Rosenstrauch, 19 October 1928 \u2013 1 March 1998) was a linguist and translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajandi completed Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 in 1947 and graduated from Tartu State University in 1953, majoring in French philology. In 1969, he defended his Candidate of Philology degree with the thesis <em>Eesti impersonaali ja passiivi s\u00fcntaks<\/em> (\u2018Syntax of the Estonian Impersonal and Passive\u2019). His other research papers also concern Estonian grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajandi worked as an editor in several publishing houses, in 1962\u20131970 and 1975\u20131988 as a researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, and from 1990 at the Estonian Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajandi translated mainly from French (e.g., Anatole France, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Gustave Flaubert, \u00c9mile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Fran\u00e7ois Mauriac, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Druon) but also from English (e.g., Winston S. Churchill, Robert Merle, Raymond Hull, Laurence J. Peter, John Fowles, Jim Hankinson, Henry Kissinger, John Milton, Angus Wilson, Bel Kaufman, C. Northcote Parkinson, William Golding, Jane Austen, John Fowles, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, David Herbert Lawrence, Thornton Wilder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajandi\u2019s stylish and informative prefaces and afterwords to the books translated over several decades are presented in the collection <em>T\u00f5lkija teekond<\/em> (\u2018Translator\u2019s Journey\u2019, 2002), published in the <em>Eesti m\u00f5ttelugu<\/em> (\u2018History of Estonian Thought\u2019) series of the Ilmamaa publishing house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, the Council of the Literature Endowment at the Cultural Endowment of Estonia established the Henno Rajandi translation scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Articles and <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>e<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ssays<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>T\u00f5lkija teekond<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2002. 220 lk. [Sari \u2018Eesti m\u00f5ttelugu\u2019.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henno Rajandi (until 1935 Henno-Joonatan Rosenstrauch, 19 October 1928 \u2013 1 March 1998) was a linguist and translator. Rajandi completed Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 in 1947 and graduated from Tartu State University in 1953, majoring in French philology. In &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":686,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5571","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=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5571\/revisions\/5572"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}