Uku Masing was an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n philosopher, translator, theologist and folklorist. He developed Estonian analytical philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues. Masing authored one novel, Liberation of Rapanui, or Seagulls at the Cemetery of Gods (Rapanui vabastamine ehk Kajakad jumalate kalmistul, written in the late 1930s but published posthumously in 1989). As a folklorist, he was a distinguished researcher of fairy tales, contributing to the international Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales

Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales

The Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales is a German reference work on international Folkloristics, which is anticipated to run to 14 volumes. It examines over two centuries of research into the folk narrative tradition...

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