Eduard Vilde
| Eduard Vilde | |
|---|---|
| File:Eduard Vilde 1911.jpg
Eduard Vilde in 1911.
|
|
| Born | 4 March 1865 Pudivere, Kreis Wierland, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Tallinn, Estonia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Period | 1880–1933 |
|
|
|
| Signature | File:Eduard Vilde signature.jpg |
Eduard Vilde (4 March 1865 in Pudivere, Väike-Maarja Parish, Lääne-Viru County – 26 December 1933 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer, a pioneer of critical realism in Estonian literature, and a diplomat. Author of classics such as The War in Mahtra and The Milkman from Mäeküla. He was one of the most revered figures in Estonian literature and is generally credited as being the country's first professional writer.[1]
Life and career
Vilde grew on the farm where his father worked. In 1883 he began working as a journalist. He spent a great deal of his life traveling abroad and he lived for some time in Berlin in the 1890s, where he was influenced by materialism and socialism. His writings were also guided by the realism and naturalism of the French writer Émile Zola (1840–1902).[2] In addition to being a prolific writer, he was also an outspoken critic of Tsarist rule and of the German landowners. With the founding of the first Estonian republic in 1919, he served as an ambassador in Berlin for several years,[3] and spent the last years of his life editing and revising an enormous volume of his collected works.
Works
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
Gallery
-
Statues of Wilde and Vilde in Galway.jpg
Statues of Oscar Wilde and Eduard Vilde in Galway. The original of this sculpture is located in Tartu.
-
USSR stamp E.Vilde 1965 4k.jpg
Vilde on a Soviet 1965 stamp.
-
Kadrioru lossi kastellaani maja.jpg
House in Kadriorg, where Eduard Vilde lived 1927–1933.
-
Eduard Vilde haud.jpg
-
MuugaMõisaPark.jpg
Monument of Vilde in Muuga Manor's park
-
Memorial to Vilde in Tallinn.
References
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
  |
This article about an Estonian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Pages with broken file links
- Use dmy dates from May 2014
- Pages using columns-list with unknown parameters
- 1865 births
- 1933 deaths
- People from Lääne-Viru County
- People from the Governorate of Estonia
- Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians
- Members of the Estonian Constituent Assembly
- Estonian non-fiction writers
- Ambassadors of Estonia to Germany
- Burials at Metsakalmistu
- Estonian male writers
- Estonian novelists
- 19th-century novelists
- 19th-century Estonian people
- 20th-century novelists
- 20th-century Estonian people
- Male novelists
- 19th-century male writers
- Estonian writer stubs
