Jakob Mändmets (July 29, 1871 – December 25, 1930) was an Estonian writer and journalist. Jakob Mändmets was born in

Paiküla Paiküla is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Paiküla is the birthplace of Estonian writer and journalist Jakob Mändmets (1871–1930). Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Lääne-Saare Pa ...

, Kärla Parish (now

Saaremaa Parish Saaremaa Parish, also known as Saaremaa Municipality (), is a municipality in Saare County in western Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland a ...

Kreis Ösel Kreis Ösel (, ) was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kuressaare (''Arensburg''). It was situated in the northwestern part of the governorate (in present-day western Estonia). The te ...

on the island of

Saaremaa Saaremaa (; ) is the largest and most populous island in Estonia. Measuring , its population is 31,435 (as of January 2020). The main island of the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hi ...

. He studied from 1885 to 1888 at the Teachers' Training College of Kaarma. He then worked in the counties of Saaremaa, Läänemaa and Harjumaa as a teacher. He then embarked on a career in journalism. From 1903 until its ban in 1905, he worked as an editor at the Estonian newspaper ''

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'', and then between 1906 and 1910 at

Päevaleht ''Päevaleht'' was a daily newspaper published in Estonia from 1990 to 1995. History and profile On 1 February 1990, the newspaper ''Noorte Hääl ''Noorte Hääl'' (meaning ''Voice of Youth'' in English) was a daily newspaper published in ...

. From 1910 to 1916, he was employed at Tallinna Teataja, and from 1916 until his death, he worked again at Päevaleht. He began writing books in 1897, writing mainly stories, novellas and short stories that describe life in Estonia. A large part of his work he dedicated to the humble daily life on his native island of

, and became known for writing village stories like ''Night-Herdsmen'' (1901), ''The Pastor Romer'' (1917), and ''Through the Underwood'' (1927). He also published plays, essays and reviews. In 1922 he became a member of the

Estonian Writers' Union The Estonian Writers' Union (, abbr. EWU is a professional association of Estonian writers and literary critics.Marje Jõeste, Küllo Arjakas, ''The Baltic States'', Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers, 1991, page 64 History The Estonian Writer ...

. Mändmets was the grandfather of physicist and academician

Endel Lippmaa Endel Lippmaa (15 September 1930 – 30 July 2015) was an Estonian scientist, academician, politician, and twice government minister in 1990–1991 and 1995–1996. Lippmaa was founder and chairman of the Science Council of the National Insti ...

. Following his death he was interred at

Rahumäe Cemetery Rahumäe (Estonian for 'peace hill' or 'quiet hill') is a subdistrict () in the district of Nõmme, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It covers an area of and has a population of 3,075 (), and a population density of . Rahumäe has a railway sta ...

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, Estonia.

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1871 births 1930 deaths People from Saaremaa Parish People from Kreis Ösel 20th-century Estonian novelists Estonian journalists Estonian male novelists Estonian male short story writers Burials at Rahumäe Cemetery Writers from the Russian Empire {{Estonia-writer-stub