Roman Jakobson and Estonia
Roman Jakobson and Estonia

Summary/Abstract: When a humanities scholar reaches a certain level of academic recognition and scholarly fame, he or she might find themselves in a bit of an unusual role - suddenly it is they who become an object of someone else’s research and academic interest. Their students, or just colleagues of a “younger” generation, start looking up various episodes of their biography, analyse in depth one or another idea expressed by such a renowned professor, draw some academic comparisons and so on. And once all this happens, there often works a rule - the more unusual/unknown the “discovered” biographical detail or scholarly idea, the better. In the current article I will try to follow a somewhat similar research logic - to investigate microhistoric episodes of Roman Osipovich Jakobson’s life related to his visits to Estonia.

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