Kristjan Jaak Peterson
Poet
Nineteenth-century poet who is considered the father of modern Estonian poetry. His poems in the German and Estonian languages were collected in two posthumously-published volumes.
He attended the University of Tartu at the turn of the nineteenth century.
He died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-one.
He was born and raised in Riga, Estonia.
He and fellow poet Mats Traat were both natives of Estonia.