Elmar Muuk (26 December 1901 – 20 November 1941) was an Estonian

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and author of a number of

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and textbooks of the

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, and was, together with

Johannes Voldemar Veski Johannes Voldemar Veski (27 June 1873 Vaidavere, Tartu County – 28 March 1968 Tartu) was an Estonian linguist. From 1896 until 1899, he studied at the University of Tartu; at the beginning he studied religion and thereafter nature sciences. F ...

and

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 langu ...

, responsible for development of Estonian as a modern European language. Muuk was born in Eivere village, Järva County. He took part of the

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik westwa ...

. Muuk was arrested by

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

on 14 June 1941 in

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and died in imprisonment in Sevurallag,

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Sources

Eesti Ekspress ''Eesti Ekspress'' (''Estonian Express'') is an Estonian weekly newspaper. Founded in 1989, ''Eesti Ekspress'' was the first politically independent newspaper in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet control of Estonia. Th ...

23 August 2007
Mahalaskmine pärast surma
by Margit-Mariann Koppel * Estonian Language Institute
Eesti keele kirjeldamise ja arendamise ajaloost

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of University of Tartu 1901 births 1941 deaths People from Paide People from the Governorate of Estonia Linguists from Estonia Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence People who died in the Gulag Estonian people who died in Soviet detention Nonpersons in the Eastern Bloc 20th-century linguists {{Estonia-linguist-stub