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Aavik
Aavik is an Estonian and Norwegian surname. In Estonian Aavik is a variation of ''Haavik'', meaning " aspen forest". Notable people with the surname include: *Arvi Aavik (born 1969), Estonian wrestler *Asbjørn Aavik (1902–1997), Norwegian Lutheran missionary *Edgar Eduard Aavik (1913–1998), Estonian-Australian sculptor, member of Six Directions * Evald Aavik (born 1941), Estonian actor * Johannes Aavik (1880–1973), Estonian philologist * Juhan Aavik (1884–1982), Estonian composer *Priidu Aavik Priidu Aavik (22 April 1905 – 22 April 1991) was an Estonian painter. He was born in Novgorod, Russian Empire. He died in Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the sh ... (1905–1991), Estonian painter * Priit Aavik (born 1994), Estonian swimmer {{surname, Aavik Estonian-language surnames Norwegian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Aavik
Johannes Aavik ( in Randvere, Saaremaa, Estonia (then Russian Empire) – 18 March 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian philologist and Fennophile who played a significant role in the modernization and development of the Estonian language.Toivo Miljan, ''Historical Dictionary of Estonia'', Scarecrow Press 2004 Education and career Aavik studied history at the University of Tartu and the University of Nezin in 1905. He was a member of the Young Estonia movement and obtained a Doctorate in Romance languages at the University of Helsinki in 1910. Aavik taught Estonian and French at Tartu University between 1926 and 1933. In 1934 he was appointed by the Estonian Ministry of Education as Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools, a position he held until 1940.'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 1. He fled Soviet occupation in 1944 and lived in Stockholm for the remainder of his life. Estonian language development Johannes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbjørn Aavik
Asbjørn Aavik (November 30, 1902 – November 20, 1997) was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary to China. He was also the author of approximately forty books. Early years Aavik was born in Aavig (now Åvik) in Lindesnes, Norway. From 1921 to 1926, he received education at Fjellhaug utdanningssenter in Oslo, a missionary school affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Mission. Missionary work He was sent to China in 1928 where he started on the China Mission Association's mission fields around Laohekou in Hubei. Aavik married Ragna Torgersen (1906–1984) in 1932 and later moved to the Yunyang northwestern mission area. The situation was turbulent, not least because of robber bands and the communist insurgency in the 1930s. In 1935 the couple decided to return to Norway. The planned return trip to China had to be postponed because the missionaries in China warned of increasing uncertainty and unease, but in 1938 Aavik traveled alone, without family, back to the same mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respect to no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhan Aavik
Juhan Aavik (29 January 1884, in Holstre, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 26 November 1982, in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian composer. Aavik studied music composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He later served as a conductor in Tartu, Governorate of Livonia (1911–1925), a musical conservatory professor and director in Tallinn (1928–1944), and an Estonian song festival conductor in Sweden (1948–1961) (after arriving there in 1944). He wrote nearly 200 Opus numbers, among them two symphonies; a Cello concerto (1949); a Double bass Concerto (1950); a Piano trio (1957); a Requiem (1959); and various choral works, songs and chamber music. In Stockholm at age 81 (1965–1969), he published a history of Estonian music in four volumes. References * Slonimsky, Nicolas – Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' is a major reference work in the field of music, originally compiled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priidu Aavik
Priidu Aavik (22 April 1905 – 22 April 1991) was an Estonian painter. He was born in Novgorod, Russian Empire. He died in Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' .... References 1905 births 1991 deaths People from Veliky Novgorod People from Novgorodsky Uyezd Soviet painters Soviet military personnel of World War II {{Estonia-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priit Aavik
Priit Aavik (born 7 November 1994) is an Estonian swimmer. He represent Saaremaa at the Island Games The Island Games (currently known as the NatWest International Island Games for sponsorship reasons) are biennial international multi-sports events organised by the International Island Games Association (IIGA). Competitor teams each represent d ... since 2009. References 1994 births Living people Estonian male backstroke swimmers Estonian male butterfly swimmers Estonian male medley swimmers Sportspeople from Kuressaare {{Estonia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvi Aavik
Arvi Aavik (born 31 December 1969, Viljandi) is an Estonian former wrestler who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References External links * * * 1969 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Estonia Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Estonian male sport wrestlers Sportspeople from Viljandi {{Estonia-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evald Aavik
Evald Aavik (born on 24 January 1941 in Kuressaare) is an Estonian actor. In 1965 he graduated from Vanemuine Theatre's stage art studio (diploma nr 1). 1966–1988 he worked at Vanemuine Theatre, 1986–1989 in Ugala Theatre and 1989–1993 in Estonian Youth Theatre. Besides theatre roles he has played also in several films. Filmography * ''Inimesed sõdurisinelis'' (1968) * ''Reigi õpetaja'' (1977) (role: Jako) * '' Tuulte pesa'' (1979) (role: foreigner) * ''Jõulud Vigalas'' (1980) (role: Bernhard Laipmann) * ''Naerata ometi'' (1985) * ''Näkimadalad'' (1989) * ''Doktor Stockmann'' (1989) * ''Ainus pühapäev'' (1990) (role: father) * ''Perekondlik sündmus'' (1998) (role: grandfather) * '' Georgica'' (1998) (role: Jakub) * ''Somnambuul ''Somnambuul'' ( en, Somnambulance) is a 2003 Estonian drama film directed by Sulev Keedus. The film is set in autumn 1944 in Estonia. Thousands of people are fleeing to the west in order to free from Soviet occupation. A young woman, Eetla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Directions
Six Directions was an art collective in Sydney, Australia, formed in 1953 by six post-war immigrants from Europe. They held group exhibitions at Bissietta's Gallery, at 70 Pitt Street, Sydney in 1957 and at the Riverside Gallery, Canberra, in 1958. All were members of the Contemporary Art Society of New South Wales, and were described as bringing new interest in texture to Australia. Members *Edgar Eduard Aavik (born in Estonia, 1913, died 5 June 1998, Thirlmere, New South Wales) was a sculptor of Darling Point, active in Sydney in the 1950s. Aakik arrived in Australia in 1949 and taught at the East Sydney Technical College 1949–1955. He was, in 1970, a Liberal candidate for the Australian Senate. He gave occasional public lectures on contemporary art. *Uldis Abolins (born in Latvia, 1923, died 13 July 2010) was a painter in watercolors and designer of stage sets. He won prizes at various art competitions throughout New South Wales and South Australia between 1958 and 1965. *Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Language
Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are not mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Today there are two official forms of ''written'' Norwegian, (literally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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