{"id":635,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/geluiga\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:30","slug":"geluiga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/l\/geluiga\/","title":{"rendered":"Georg Eduard Luiga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\"G.<\/a><\/span> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tGeorg Eduard Luiga <\/span>(27.\/15.\u00a0II 1866 \u2013 20. III 1936) was a schoolteacher and journalist who also wrote poems and prose.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLuiga was born in Valgj\u00e4rve\u00a0parish in V\u00f5ru county, the son of a schoolmaster. Even as a boy of ten or eleven he started writing poems, because there was not much reading matter. Luiga sent his first poems to newspapers as a teenager. After leaving the parish school he was a schoolteacher at \u00c4ksi and a collaborator on J.V.\u00a0Jannsen\u2019s newspaper Eesti Postimees. <\/span><\/i>He also collaborated on K.A. Hermann\u2019s paper Olevik<\/span><\/i>, sometimes under a female pseudonym. Later Luiga went to work in the editorial office of Olevik <\/span><\/i>for a short time. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1891 Luiga emigrated to Russia, first to the settlement of Simbirsk as a parish schoolteacher, then four years later to the same post in Tobolsk\u00a0in Western Siberia. After ten years away from his homeland he initially came back to work on the newspaper Ristirahva P\u00fchap\u00e4evaleht<\/span><\/i>, then to be chief editor of P\u00e4evaleht<\/span><\/i>. From 1908 to 1934, in the position of editor-in-chief, Luiga developed it, together with Hans Rebane, into one of the most widely-read papers in Estonia.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLuiga\u2019s first book was a collection of stories in the national-romantic vein, Muruneid <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Maid of the Grass\u2019, 1886). Together with other similar early prose works and poetry collections (Laulud<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 \u2018<\/span><\/i>Songs\u2019 -, 1888;\u00a0Uued laulud<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>\u2018<\/span><\/i>New Songs\u2019 -, 1901), it found readers, but earned reproaches from the critics for its artistic weakness. Of Georg Eduard Luiga\u2019s poems the best known is Lapsep\u00f5lvekodu<\/span><\/i>, (\u2018Childhood Home\u2019), which is known for the words of the first verse: \u201cS\u00e4\u00e4l, kus rukkiv\u00e4li lagendikul heljub\u2026<\/span><\/i>\u201d (\u2018Where the rye-field floats in the clearing\u2026\u2019). <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1912 Luiga published a collection of 17 stories, V\u00e4givallamaal <\/span><\/i>(\u2018In the Land of Violence\u2019). The work describes the lives of emigrants from Estonia in Siberia, and is based on real events and persons. The book was warmly received. Words of praise also came from August Kitzberg, who noted, however, that not all the stories were of an even quality. Later critics have taken note of George Eduard Luiga poems, saying that the author had a lively imagination and a facility for finding a suitable forms for the poems. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1911 Luiga produced a travelogue, Mere taga v\u00f5\u00f5rsil <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Abroad Beyond the Sea\u2019) with his impressions of Denmark and Norway. Luiga also wrote several books of popular science, brochures and articles in journals, and translated fiction into Estonian.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tL.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/i>P. \u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>

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

\n\tPoetry<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>
G. E. Luiga laulud<\/span><\/b>. Tartu: K. A. Hermann, 1888,\u00a0117 lk.
Uued laulud<\/span><\/b>. Tallinn. J. Ploompuu raamatukauplus, 1901,\u00a0136 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>
Muruneid: Luule jutt Eestlaste minewikust<\/span><\/b>. Tartu: H. Laakmann, 1886,\u00a034 lk.
Pahane neiu<\/span><\/b>. Tartu: K. A. Hermann, 1887,\u00a090 lk.
Omad witsad<\/span><\/b>. G. E. Luiga uudisjutt Eesti w\u00e4ljar\u00e4ndajate elust. Tallinn: J. Ploompuu, 1900,\u00a031 lk.
W\u00e4giwallamaal<\/span><\/b>. Jutustused. Tallinn: J. Ploompuu, 1912,\u00a0242 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTravel<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>ogues<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>
Mere taga w\u00f5\u00f5rsil<\/span><\/b>. Tallinn: Tallinna Eesti Kirjastus-\u00fchisus, 1911,\u00a063 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMiscellaneous<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>
\u00d5igus ja kohus<\/span><\/b>: Tarwiline seaduse asjade k\u00e4siraamat iga\u00fchele igap\u00e4ewases elus ja kohtuk\u00e4imises. 1. jagu: Kohtupidamise kord k\u00f5igis kohtutes ja palwekirjade proowid. Tartu: A. Grenzstein, 1891,\u00a075 lk.
Kepp ja kalju<\/span><\/b>: Seitsmekordne palwe-raamat ja kuus lisa. P\u00e4rnu: J. Dreimanni raamatukauplus, 1896,\u00a0143 lk.
Maakera elulugu<\/span><\/b>. Tallinn: Koit, 1907,\u00a0110 lk.
Meie n\u00e4gemata s\u00f5brad ja waenlased<\/span><\/b>: Loodusteadusline kirjeldus bakteriatest: 28 pildiga. Tallinn: G. Pihlakas, 1908,\u00a066 lk.
Taimede elu<\/span><\/b>. Tallinn: Teadus, 1913. 96 lk.
Eesti-Saksa wahekord Baltimaal<\/span><\/b>. Tallinn: Tallinna Eesti Kirjastus-\u00dchisus, 1919,\u00a047 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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