Author · Estonia
Gustav Suits
Died in 1956
Gustav Suits was born on 30 November 1883 in the parish of Kastre-Võnnu, in Tartumaa. After graduating from the Alexander Gymnasium in Tartu, he began studies in history and languages at Tartu in 1904, then moved the following year to the University of Helsinki. A leading figure of the Noor-Eesti group, whose almanacs and then journal he edited, he gave it its watchword: let us be Estonians, but let us also become Europeans. The first professor of Estonian literature at Tartu, he fled in 1944 to Stockholm, where he lived on a grant from the Nobel foundation and died on 23 May 1956.
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- PoetryFire of LifeElu tuliGustav Suits · 1905Literature