Eduard Vilde

Eduard Vilde was born on 4 March 1865 on the Pudivere estate, in Virumaa, the son of a manor foreman, and grew up on the Muuga estate. A pupil at German-language schools in Tallinn, which he left without a diploma, he entered the press in 1883, in Tallinn, Tartu and Riga, and lived for two years in Berlin as a freelance journalist. Involved in the 1905 revolution, he had to flee, tried his luck in New York and lived in Copenhagen until 1917. Having returned home, he was in 1919 and 1920 the republic's envoy to Berlin. He died in Tallinn on 26 December 1933.

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• NovelKülmale maaleEduard Vilde · 1896not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain