Jakob Hurt was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist. With respect to the last, he is perhaps best known for his dissertation on "pure" -ne stem nouns . He was also featured on the 10 krooni note.
Also known as the "king of Estonian folklore", Hurt planned the publication in the 1870s of a six volume series called Monumenta Estoniae Antiquae. Hurt organised around 1400 volunteer collectors via a press campaign, who visited almost every house in Livonia collecting around 124,000 pages of folklore. Due to financial difficulties, however, only two volumes of folk songs were published in 1875-76, entitled Vana kannel . Two more volumes were published in 1938 and 1941. Hurt also published a three volume collection called Setukeste laulud between 1894 and 1907. Wikipedia
“If we can't be a great nation in population we can be a great nation in spirit!”
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