Arvo Krikmann

Arvo Krikmann (21 July 1939 – 27 February 2017) was "an Estonian academician, folklorist, linguist, paremiologist, and humour researcher".[1] He may be best known as a proverb scholar, “one of the leading paremiologists in the world.”[2]

He graduated from Tartu University’s Department of Estonian Philology in 1962. He stayed on there till 1969 as a researcher at the Literary Museum in Tartu. From 1970-1972, he did postgraduate studies there, then went on to work as a researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature, then the Institute of Estonian Language, and finally at the Estonian Literary Museum.[3] He was part of the Tartu Paremiology Group, a group of scholar that did major work on not only Estonian proverbs, but cooperated on comparative work with other proverb scholars in the Balto-Finnic area, led by Matti Kuusi.[4] He also worked with Matti Kuusi on the ‘’Proverbia Septentrionalia. 900 Balto-Finnic proverb types with Russian, Baltic, German, and Scandinavian Parallels’’ (1985). Also, he and Ingrid Sarv assembled the five-volume Estonian proverb collection ‘‘Eesti vanasõnad’’ (1980-1988).[5]

Krikmann has published many dozen items on proverb study.[6] Since his native Estonia was under Soviet domination for much of his academic life, Krikmann’s access to proverb publications and outside scholars from outside of the Soviet shadow was limited.[7]

Academically, he was named “professor extraordinary” at Tartu University in 1992, then in 1997 was named to the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has also been named to multiple boards and committees.[8] Krikmann was honored by the 2014 volume of Proverbium dedicated to him as a Festschrift. He was honored by a symposium held in his honor in 2014.[9] It was titled “Scala naturae: Symposium in honour of Arvo Krikmann’s 75th birthday” and was held at the Estonian Academy of Sciences in Tallinn.

References

  1. ↑ Sarv, Mari. 2017. In Memoriam: Arvo Krikmann (1939–2017). Studia Metrica et Poetica 4.1, 162–164.
  2. ↑ p. vi. Wolfgang Mieder. 2009. Editor’s Preface. Proverb semantics: Studies in structure, logic, and metaphor, edited by Wolfgang Mieder, pp. v-viii. (Supplement Series to Proverbium, 29.) Burlington, VT: University of Vermont.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Mieder. 2009. Editor’s Preface. ‘‘Proverb semantics: Studies in structure, logic, and metaphor’’, edited by Wolfgang Mieder, pp. v-viii. (Supplement Series to Proverbium, 29.) Burlington, VT: University of Vermont.
  4. ↑ Arvo Krikmann and Ingrid Sarv. 1996. The Tartu research group of paremiology. Proverbium 13: 111-134.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Mieder. 2014. Preface. Proverbium 31: ix-xi.
  6. ↑ p. 5. Wolfgang Mieder. Arvo Krikmann: Master folklorist and paremiologist. Proverbium 31: 1-10.
  7. ↑ Peter Grzybek. 2014. Mosaic or jigsaw? Publishing an article from Estonia in the “West”, 30 years ago, when circumstances were quite different from today. Proverbium 31: 11-34.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Mieder. 2009. Editor’s Preface. ‘‘Proverb semantics: Studies in structure, logic, and metaphor’’, edited by Wolfgang Mieder, pp. v-viii. (Supplement Series to Proverbium, 29.) Burlington, VT: University of Vermont.
  9. ↑ http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol59/n01.pdf Online report
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