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\n\tShort stories<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\"Ernst<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Ernst S\u00e4rgava<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

Ernst S\u00e4rgava (born Karl Ernst Petersen, until 1935 Ernst Peterson, also used the name Ernst Peterson-S\u00e4rgava, 29.\/17. IV 1868 \u2013 12. IV 1958) was a prose author and playwright, one of the founders of Estonian critical realism.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born in Vana-V\u00e4ndra parish, P\u00e4rnumaa country, the son of a teacher. He attended Kadaka village school, V\u00e4ndra and Tori parish schools, and from 1886 to 1889 in Tartu II Teachers\u2019 Seminary. From 1883 to 1886 he worked as an assistant to his father at Kadaka school, from 1889 to 1906 as a teacher and schoolmaster at schools in Sindi, P\u00f5ltsamaa, Kose-Uuem\u00f5isa and Rakvere; from 1906 at various schools in Tallinn. From 1919 to 1938 he was a teacher of Estonian and inspector at Tallinn Secondary School of Science. He wrote several Estonian language textbooks, some of which were reprinted. He was a member of the Tallinn City Council from 1907 to 1918 and 1930 to 1933, the deputy chairman of the Estonian Education Union from 1934 to 1936 and chairman from 1936 to 1940, from 1927 head of propaganda of the Tallinn unit of the Estonian Defence League, and a member of the central board of the Patriot League party from 1938 to 1940. In 1938 he was elected to the National Assembly\u2019s Chamber of Deputies. He was active in the temperance movement. From 1940 to 1950 S\u00e4rgava worked as an Estonian language teacher at the Tallinn College of Building Technology. He became a People\u2019s Writer of the Estonian SSR in 1957. He died in Tallinn and was buried at the Metsakalmistu Cemetery.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tS\u00e4rgava\u2019s youth was passed in a nationalist-minded environment. He read European classical and modern literature, but he was particularly influenced by the contemporary Russian authors Tolstoy, Chekhov and others. He was also enthused by Andres Saal, Juhan Liiv and Eduard Vilde. His social views were influenced by Ernst Haeckel and other materialist scientific scholars, and ideas critical of religion from Western Europe.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tS\u00e4rgava began writing while studying at the teachers\u2019 seminary in Tartu, cultivating realism from the start. While working as a teacher, S\u00e4rgava came into close contact with the people\u2019s economic and social problems. The heyday of his creative work fell into the period 1898-1905. S\u00e4rgava entered the front rank of the critical realists with his three-volume series of stories Paised<\/em> (\u2018Dams\u2019) \u2013 \u00dche h\u00e4rja lugu<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018The Tale of a Bull\u2019) and\u00a0Marjad silmas<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018Berries in the Eye\u2019) in a single volume in 1899, Issanda kiituseks<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018To Praise the Lord\u2019, 1900) and\u00a0Tulge appi!<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018Come and Help!\u2019, 1901). The particularly radical and critical story Tulge appi!<\/em>\u00a0got a sequel Oheliku onu j\u00f5ulun\u00e4gemine<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018The Halterman\u2019s Christmas Vision\u2019), which appeared in the newspaper Teataja<\/em> (1901). Paised examines the late feudal and early capitalist economic conditions that were crushing the people, the moral decline and the mind-numbing oppression by the clergy. Paised<\/em> is linked thematically with the story J\u00f5ulupuu<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018The Christmas Tree\u2019, 1903), which depicts the plight of the urban poor.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the novel Rahvavalgustaja<\/em> (\u2018Enlightener of the People\u2019, 1904) S\u00e4rgava depicts the dominating petty bourgeois mentality, the mental stagnation, meanness and vulgarity of Mudila, a small market town. The efforts of young schoolteachers to enliven social life end in the teachers either acquiescing or leaving Mudila. Mudila later became a general name for the mental resignation and extreme provincialism of Estonian public life. Inspiration for the novel was drawn from S\u00e4rgava\u2019s own hometown of V\u00e4ndra. Written in the spirit of the 1905 revolution was the story Kolonist<\/em>\u00a0(\u2018The Colonist\u2019, 1906), depicting relations between landlords and tenant farmers.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the revolution S\u00e4rgava\u2019s political radicalism softened; after he settled in Tallinn in 1906 his creative productivity also lessened, and his participation in social and political life increased. He started actively compiling Estonian language textbooks. In his work S\u00e4rgava began drawing more attention to the need to support women\u2019s social emancipation. Of the stories reflecting these strivings, the best known are Liisi<\/em>\u00a0(1905) and Elsa<\/em>\u00a0(1907). He also wrote Ennemuistsed jutud lastele<\/em> (\u2018Once Upon a Time, Tales for Children\u2019, 1909) and Ennemuistsed jutud reinuvader rebasest<\/em> (\u2018Once Upon a Time, Tales of Reynard the Fox\u2019, 1911), of which the latter is nowadays S\u00e4rgava\u2019s most popular work.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1920 S\u00e4rgava published a play dealing with the problems of marriage and morals, S\u00f5najala \u00f5is<\/em> (\u2018Fern blossom\u2019), and in 1922 the comedy Uus miniister<\/em> (\u2018The New Minister\u2019) mocking the life of the petty bourgeois Mudila, known from his earlier novel Rahvavalgustaja<\/em>. In the latter half of his life S\u00e4rgava worked for several decades on the novel L\u00e4hme linna kirjutama, oma elu kergendama!<\/em> (\u2018Let\u2019s Go to Town and Write, to Ease our Lives!\u2019), but it was never made ready for print, finally appearing in two volumes only in 1968, edited by Olev J\u00f5gi. L\u00e4hme linna kirjutama\u2026<\/em> is a large-scale novel of cultural history, depicting mid-19th-century life in the V\u00e4ndra district. Among the central figures in the novel, apart from members of S\u00e4rgava\u2019s own family, are well-known local cultural figures, J. V. Jannsen, C. K\u00f6rber, and others.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe memory of Ernst S\u00e4rgava is perpetuated by a monument erected in 1985 in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn and moved in 1988 to the front of the Tallinn Secondary School of Science.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tS. V. (Translated by C. M.)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
Ei iialgi<\/strong>. Roman Eesti l\u00e4hemast minevikust. Rakvere: N. Erna, 1888, 269 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8602<\/a>. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1895, 1902, 1938.]
Ernst Peterson, Rahwa-walgustaja<\/strong>: Uudisjutt. Jurjev: Uudised, 1904, 237 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1921, 1938, 1946, 1953.]
L\u00e4hme linna kirjutama, oma elu kergendama. 1<\/strong>. Kommeteerinud O. J\u00f5gi. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1968, 559 lk.
L\u00e4hme linna kirjutama, oma elu kergendama. 2<\/strong>. Kommeteerinud O. J\u00f5gi. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1968, 583 lk.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/em><\/strong>
Ernst Peterson, Paised. Juhtumised ja jutustused Eesti elust. 1. anne<\/strong>. Rakvere: N. Erna, 1899, 94 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8612<\/a>. Sisu: \u2018\u00dche h\u00e4rja elulugu\u2019, \u2018\u201dMarjad silmas\u201d ehk 50% rumalust, 25% laiskust, ja mis \u00fcle selle, see on sula kange-kaelus\u2019.]
Ernst Peterson, Paised. Juhtumised ja jutustused Eesti elust. 2. anne<\/strong>. Rakvere: N. Erna, 1900, 120 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8613<\/a>. Sisu: \u2018Issanda kiituseks\u2019.]
Ernst Peterson, Paised. 3. anne nr. 4, \u201cTulge appi!\u201d<\/strong> (T\u00fckikene missioni t\u00f6\u00f6st Indiamaal). Rakvere: N. Erna, 1901, 81 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8614<\/a>.]
Hea s\u00f5ber: Uus Lugemise Raamat weiksematele lastele<\/strong>. 1. jagu, Kooli ja kodu jaoks. Kokku seadinud Ernst Peterson.\u00a0Rakvere: N. Erna, 1903, 109 lk.
Elsa<\/strong>. Ernst Petersoni jutt. Tallinn: [s.n.], 1907, 100 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8604<\/a>.]
Ennemuistsed jutud lastele<\/strong>. E. Petersoni jutustatud. Illustreerinud A. Uurits. Tallinn: E. Peterson, 1909, 16 lk. [E-raamat: Tallinn: Digira, 2015.]
Ennemuistsed jutud Reinuwaderist rebasest<\/strong>. Ernst Peterson\u2019i jutustatud. Kunstniku R. R. Hirsch\u2019i joonistused. Tallinn: Tallinnamaa kooli\u00f5petajate vastastiku-abiandmise Selts, 1911, 95 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10062\/8616<\/a>. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1918, 1920, 1947, 1955, 1967, 1981, 2000.]
Ernst Peterson, Jutustused<\/strong>. Tallinn: M\u00f5te, 1916, 205 lk. [K\u00e4ttesaadav: http:\/\/www.digar.ee\/id\/nlib-digar:363803<\/a>. Sisu: Liisi. J\u00f5ulupuu. Kolonist. Oheliku onu j\u00f5ulun\u00e4gemine. H\u00f5iskama Jaagup.]
Ernst Peterson, Liisi<\/strong>. Tallinn: J. Lilienbach, 1914, 63 lk.
J\u00f5ulupuu<\/strong>. Ernst Petersoni jutustus linnaelust. Tallinn: M\u00f5te, 1916, 48 lk.
Kolonist<\/strong>. Ernst Petersoni jutustus maaelust. Tallinn: M\u00f5te, 1916, 38 lk.
Oheliku onu j\u00f5ulun\u00e4gemine<\/strong>. Ernst Petersoni jutustus maaelust. Tallinn: M\u00f5te, 1916, 23 lk.
Paised<\/strong>. Tallinn : Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1945, 232 lk. [Sisu: \u2018\u00dche h\u00e4rja elulugu\u2019, \u2018Marjad silmas\u2019, \u2018Issanda kiituseks\u2019, \u2018Tulge appi!\u2019. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1958, 1970.]<\/span>
Jutustused<\/strong>. Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1947, 372 lk.<\/span>
Ernst S\u00e4rgava-Peterson, Jutustused<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1952, 285 lk.<\/span>
Jutustusi<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1959,\u00a068 lk.Kurvad linnud. Koostanud M. Mihkli, j\u00e4rels\u00f5na: H. Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1989, 382 lk. [Sari \u2018Eesti novellivara\u2019.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
Ernst Peterson, S\u00f5najala \u00f5is<\/strong>. N\u00e4idend 3 waatuses. Tallinn: Eestimaa Kooli\u00f5petajate V. A. Selts, 1920, 112 lk.<\/span>
Ernst Peterson, Uus miniister<\/strong>. N\u00e4idend 3. waatuses. Tallinn: Kool, 1922, 98 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCollected works:<\/em> Ernst S\u00e4rgava (Peterson), Kogutud teosed, 1938-1939<\/strong>
I k\u00f6ide<\/strong>. Tartu; Tallinn: Loodus, 1938, 552 lk. [Sisu: P. Ambur, \u2018Ernst S\u00e4rgava eluk\u00e4igust\u2019, \u2018N\u00e4lg\u2019, \u2018Ei iialgi!\u2019, \u2018\u00d5nnetu \u00f5nnelik\u2019, \u2018\u00dche h\u00e4rja elulugu\u2019, \u2018Marjad silmas\u2019, \u2018Aadam Tips\u2019 (n\u00e4idend).]
II k\u00f6ide<\/strong>. Tartu; Tallinn: Loodus, 1938, 530 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Issanda kiituseks\u2019, \u2018Tulge appi!\u2019, \u2018Oheliku-onu j\u00f5ulun\u00e4gemine\u2019, \u2018Heinakuhi\u2019, \u2018H\u00f5iskama Jaagup\u2019, \u2018Nime p\u00e4rast\u2019, \u2018J\u00f5ulupuu\u2019, \u2018Rahvavalgustaja\u2019.]
III k\u00f6ide<\/strong>. Tartu; Tallinn : Loodus, 1939, 559 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Kurvad linnud\u2019, \u2018Maa \u00e4gab\u2019, \u2018Liisi\u2019, \u2018Kolonist\u2019, \u2018Elsa\u2019, \u2018Kain ja Aabel\u2019, \u2018N\u00f5ia juures\u2019, \u2018S\u00f5najala \u00f5is\u2019 (n\u00e4idend), \u2018Uus minister\u2019, \u2018C. R. Jakobsoni matusel\u2019, \u2018Poolelij\u00e4\u00e4nud jutlus\u2019, \u2018Joosua\u2019.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Ernst S\u00e4rgava<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
Paul Ambur, Ernst S\u00e4rgava loomingu probleemistikust<\/strong>. Tartu; Tallinn: Loodus, 1939, 248 lk.<\/span>
Richard Alek\u00f5rs, E. Peterson-S\u00e4rgava. Elu ja looming<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1963, 164 lk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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