Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
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About
Estonian philologist who was active in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. An Estonian cultural enthusiast, he popularized Estonian folklore.
Before Fame
He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, graduating in 1825.
Trivia
He co-founded the Learned Estonian Society, an institution for the study of Estonian history, in 1838.
Family Life
He was born and raised in Jarva County, where his father worked as a hotel manager. Faehlmann died of tuberculosis at the age of fifty-one.
Associated With
He and poet Heiti Talvik were both born in Estonia.
