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Puusepp
Puusepp is an Estonian surname meaning ' carpenter' (literally, 'wood-smith') and may refer to the following individuals: *Edgar Puusepp (1911–1982), Estonian wrestler *Endel Puusepp (1909–1996), Estonian Soviet-era World War II pilot * Ludvig Puusepp (1875–1942), Estonian surgeon, researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery * Markus Puusepp (born 1986), Estonian orienteering competitor * Priidu Puusepp (1887–1972), Estonian educator and linguist *Raivo Puusepp Raivo Puusepp (born 21 March 1960) is an Estonian architect. His notable works include: *Main building of SEB in Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the G ... (born 1960), Estonian architect See also * Puusepa, Võru County * Puusepa, Harju County {{Surname Estonian-language surnames Occupational surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludvig Puusepp
Ludvig Puusepp (also Pussep or Pousep, rus. Людвиг Мартынович Пуссеп; in Kyiv – 19 October 1942 in Tartu) was an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery. Early life Ludvig Puusepp was born on 3 December 1875 in Kyiv to an Estonian father and a Polish-Czech mother. His father Martin Puusepp was a shoemaker who had migrated from Rakvere, Estonia to St. Petersburg where he met and married Victoria-Stephania Goebel. Puusepp learned German at home and Russian in school; it was not until 1920 at age 44 that he learned the Estonian language. He continued to study languages including French, English and Italian. Career Early Career in Russia Puusepp undertook medical studies at the St. Petersburg Medical Military Academy from 1894 to 1899. Puusepp began training in neurology under Vladimir Bekhterev, and performed his first neurosurgical operation in 1899. After he was awarded the Doctor of Medical Science in 1902, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Puusepp
Endel Puusepp (russian: Эндель Карлович Пусэп; 1 May 1909 – 18 June 1996) was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin, who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award for flying a high-ranking delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front. Early life Endel Puusepp was born into a family of Estonian peasants who had settled in Yeniseysk Governorate, Siberia, during the Stolypin land reform. Ever since early childhood, Puusepp dreamed of becoming a pilot. His parents, however, envisaged a different career for him: either a teacher or an agronomist. Having completed 7 grades of school, Puusepp moved to Leningrad to study at the Estonian-Finnish Teachers' College. Aviation career After completing one year of studies at the teacher's college, Puusepp transferred to a pilot's school, first in Volsk a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Puusepp
Edgar Puusepp (11 September 1911 – 19 December 1982) was an Estonian amateur wrestling, wrestler and wrestling coach. He competed in the Wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight, men's Greco-Roman welterweight at the 1936 Summer Olympics, achieving 4th place. He won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1939 European Wrestling Championships. Career Edgar Puusepp was born in Tallinn to Kaarel and Mai Puusepp (née Luhe). He began training as a wrestler at Kalev Tallinn in 1928 under the guidance of Osvald Käpp. He won a silver medal in the men's welterweight event at the 1939 European Wrestling Championships, and achieved 5th place at both the 1937 and 1938 European Wrestling Championships. He won the gold medal at the 1945 and 1947 USSR Championships, bronze in 1945, and silver in the men's freestyle event in 1947. Puusepp was an 11-time Estonian champion: in 1938, 1940 and 1945-1951 in Greco-Roman wrestling, and 1948 and 1951 in fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priidu Puusepp
Priidu Puusepp (until 1936 Friedrich Puusepp; February 11, 1887 – November 1, 1972) was an Estonian educator and linguist. Early life and education Priidu Puusepp was born in Võru, the son of Gustav Puusepp (1858–1905), a tailor, and Emma Amalie Puusepp (née Hermann, 1864–1925). In 1905, he graduated from a teacher training program in Valga. Career From 1905 to 1914, Puusepp was a teacher in the rural schools of Võru County and Pärnu County. His teaching career was interrupted by service in the Imperial Russian Army from 1914 to 1917. From 1917 to 1920 he taught at Võru High School,''Keel ja kirjandus'' 9 (1966), p. 440. from 1922 to 1932 at , and from 1932 to 1944 at Elementary School No. 16 in Tartu. In 1940, Puusepp was certified as a secondary and vocational school teacher of Estonian language and literature by the University of Tartu. From 1946 to 1953 he taught in the Russian language department of the University of Tartu.''Emakeele Seltsi aastaraamat'' 8 (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Puusepp
Markus Puusepp (born March 6, 1986 in Võru) is a former Estonian orienteering competitor and junior world champion. He became Junior World Champion in the ''relay'' in Druskininkai in 2006, together with Mihkel Järveoja and Timo Sild.Junior World Orienteering Championships – ''International Orienteering Federation'' (Retrieved on July 8, 2008) – World of O Runners (Retrieved on July 8, 2008) He received a in the ''long course'' at the same champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raivo Puusepp
Raivo Puusepp (born 21 March 1960) is an Estonian architect. His notable works include: *Main building of SEB in Tallinn *Tartu Department Store ( et, Tartu Kaubamaja), Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ... *Solaris Center, Tallinn *WW Passage (''WW Passaaž''), Tallinn *Sikupilli Shopping Centre, Tallinn Gallery File:Tartu Kaubamaja 2011.JPG, Tartu Kaubamaja References External links Official website 1960 births Living people Estonian architects Estonian Academy of Arts alumni {{Estonia-architect-stub ... [...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] |
Carpenter
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the United States, 98.5% of carpenters are male, and it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999. In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.5 million carpentry positions. Carpenters are usually the first tradesmen on a job and the last to leave. Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old-fashioned carpentry is called timber framing. Carpenters learn this trade by being employed through an apprenticeship training—normally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puusepa, Võru County
Puusepa is a village in Võru Parish, Võru County in southern 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, a .... (retrieved 28 July 2021) References Villages in Võru County Võru Parish {{võru-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puusepa, Harju County
Puusepa is a village in Kose Parish, Harju County Harju County ( et, Harju maakond or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in Northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the so ..., northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) Its mayor is Rory Bessell. References Villages in Harju County {{Harju-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
