Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.
Estonian mythology is a complex of myths belonging to the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology. Information about the pre-Christian and medieval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles, travellers' accounts and in ecclesiastical registers. Systematic recordings of Estonian folklore started in the 19th century. Pre-Christian Estonian deities may have included a god known as Jumal or Taevataat in Estonian, corresponding to Jumala in Finnish, and Jumo in Mari.
Khaltesh-Anki, 'Gold Woman', is an Ob-Ugrian goddess, associated with childbirth, fertility, fate, and the earth
Ene Mihkelson was an Estonian writer. She was a recipient of the Herder Prize and the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature.
Arsti ramat nende juhhatamisseks kes tahtwad többed ärraarwada ning parrandada was the first medical manual written in Estonian and is also regarded as the beginning of Estonian popular-scientific literature. It was compiled by Peter Ernst Wilde, translated by August Wilhelm Hupel and printed in 1771. It can be viewed as a continuation or a collection of their earlier work, the Lühhike öppetus.
Jüri Talvet is an Estonian poet and academic. He is the author of various literary works including poetry, criticism, and essays.
Vahur Afanasjev was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel Serafima and Bogdan a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition.
Oskar Kallas was an Estonian diplomat, linguist and folklorist. He was the husband of the Finnish writer Aino Kallas.
Oskar Loorits was an Estonian folklorist.
The Estonian Literary Museum, is a national research institute of the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia. Its mission is to improve the cultural heritage of Estonia, to collect, preserve, research and publish the results. The current Head of the Estonian Literary Museum is Piret Voolaid.
Priidu Beier is an Estonian poet and teacher. He has edited several publications and is also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union and Estonian Literary Society. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Head of the Pedagogical arts sector of Tartu Art Museum. In 2007 he presented a poetry collection in Tartu with Kerti Tergem. He has taught art history at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu.
Rein Raud is an Estonian academic and author.
Arvo Krikmann was an Estonian academician, folklorist, linguist, paremiologist, and humour researcher. He may be best known as a proverb scholar, “one of the leading paremiologists in the world.”
The Estonian Folklore Archives (EFA) is the central folklore archives in Estonia. The Archives functions currently as the subdivision of the Estonian Literary Museum but it was established in 1927 as the division of the Estonian National Museum. The current Head of the Archives is Dr. Risto Järv.
Kristiina Ehin is an Estonian poet, translator, singer and songwriter.
Marju Lepajõe was an Estonian classical philologist, translator and religious historian.
Anna Bērzkalne was a Latvian teacher and folklorist who founded the Archives of Latvian Folklore in 1924 and headed the organization for its first five years. Her analysis of Latvian folk ballads was awarded the Krišjānis Barons Prize in 1933. She was the first Latvian to earn a degree in Folkloric Studies and is recognized as one of the central figures in developing folkloric study as an academic discipline in Latvia.
Valmar Adams was an Estonian poet, literary scholar and editor. He also used pseudonyms Vilmar Adams (1924–1933), Vladimir Aleksandrovski and Inno Vask.
Andreas Kalkun is an Estonian (Seto) poet, musician and folklorist.
August Annist was an Estonian literary and folklore scholar, writer and translator.
