1. What is known about the earliest settlers from Estonia to the territory of the present-day US? *The first immigrants from Estonia in the US = 1627 no trace of the "Estonians and Livonians" who left their homeland to settle at the mouth of the Delaware River (a Swedish colony) · 1654 at least one Estonian in the settlement of New Sweden on the Delaware River Johan Schalbrick, a drummer from Tallinn (Reval) · New Sweden Swedish colony on the Delaware River from 16381655 · 1657 Martinus Hoffman, born in Tallinn (Reval), came to New York (New Amsterdam), started to work as a saddlemaker. · His great-granddaughter Cornelia Hoffmann (b
1944, same performers. 2 Eduard Tubina elust ja loomingust (Eduard Tubin’s Life and Works), Eesti loomig: kirjanduslik koguteos (Estonian Creation), vol. 4 (Stockholm: Välis-Eesti Kirjastustoimkond, 1946) 103. 3 Ibid, 103-104. 4 Carl G. Brinkmann, Revaler Zeitung 18 Apr. 1944. Sciences; Gustav Ränk (1902-1998), ethnologist; Oskar Loorits (1900-1961) historian and folklorist, greatly appreciated for research into the ancient religions of the Estonians and Livonians; Ernst Öpik (1893-1985), astronomer, founder of the Estonian School of Astronomers, author of a theory concerning the evolution of comets; Edgar Kant (1902-1978), economist and geographer, the last war-time Rector of Tartu University; Jüri Uluots (1890-1945), lawyer and statesman, the last Premier of the Estonian Republic; Johan Kõpp (1874-1970), Bishop of the Estonian Lutheran Church; Arthur Võõbus (1909-1988), clergyman, church historian and Orientalist. Tartu
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