Johannes Käis (26 December 1885 – 29 April 1950) was an

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 ...

n educator. He was a leading figure of the Estonian school renewal movement in the 1930s. Käis was born in

Rosma Rosma is a village in Põlva Parish, Põlva County in southeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) Rosma history dates back to ancient times. The village on the border between Valgatabalwe and south-eastern part of Uganda, mentioned in the ...

. In 1918 he graduated from Petrograd University. From 1903 to 1917 he worked as a teacher in Latvia. In 1920 he returned to Estonia. From 1931 to 1940 he was the scientific secretary of the Estonian Teachers' Union.

Awards

* 1945

Honored Teacher of the Estonian SSR Honored Teacher of the Estonian SSR ( et, Eesti NSV teeneline õpetaja) was an honorary title in the Estonian SSR, which the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR awarded to teachers from 1945 to 1989. Recipients *1945: Johannes ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kais, Johannes 1885 births 1950 deaths 20th-century Estonian educators People from Põlva Parish