August Kitzberg

August Kitzberg was born on 8 January 1856, 29 December 1855 according to the old calendar, in the parish of Laatre, in Mulgimaa, near the Latvian border, the son of a day labourer housed in a sauna. Trained at the school where his brother taught, he was a clerk's assistant and then scribe of five parishes until 1893, when Russian was required. He then kept the accounts of a distillery in Courland, headed a department of a railway-carriage factory in Riga, managed the Postimees in Tartu and served a land credit society until 1920. A writer's pension kept him; he died in Tartu on 10 October 1927.

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• TheatreThe WerewolfLibahuntAugust Kitzberg · 1911LiteraturePublic domain