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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Died in 1882

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was born on 26 December 1803 on the Jõepere estate, in Virumaa, the son of servants whom their lord freed from serfdom in 1815. A pupil at German-language schools in Rakvere and Tallinn, a tutor in Tallinn and Saint Petersburg, he studied medicine in Tartu from 1826 to 1833, then was for forty-four years the town doctor of Võru. He published almanacs, popular books and collected tales, received the Demidov Prize and died in Tartu on 25 August 1882.

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