August Wilhelm Hupel

Non-Fiction Author

Birthday February 25, 1737

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Germany

DEATH DATE Feb 17, 1819 (81)

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About

Baltic-German writer and linguist who authored an Estonian grammatical treatise and a dictionary. During the 1760s, he translated articles for an Estonian periodical called Luhhike Oppetus.

Before Fame

He published an Estonian medical textbook in 1771.

Trivia

His 1780 Estonian dictionary contained close to 17,000 words.

Family Life

He was born and raised in Buttelstedt, Germany. He died at the age of eighty-two in Paida, Estonia.

Associated With

He was born in the same country as writer Carl Jakobson.