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Raimo Raag | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 August 1953 |
| Known for | Research on the history of the Estonian language, language planning, Estonian–Swedish language contact, and the Estonian diaspora |
| Awards | Order of the White Star, 5th Class (2001) Distinguished Teaching Award, Uppsala University (2008) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Uppsala University |
| Thesis | 'Lexical Characteristics in Swedish Estonian' (1982) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics, cultural history |
| Institutions | Uppsala University |
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Raimo Raag (born 20 August 1953) is a Sweden-based Estonian linguist and cultural historian who has spent most of his academic career at Uppsala University, where he became professor of Finno-Ugric languages in 2001.[1][2][3] His research has focused on the history of the Estonian language and other Finnic languages, language planning, Estonian–Swedish language contact, and the history of Estonians abroad.[4][5] In 2019 he was elected a foreign member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.[2] He is also an honorary member of the Estonian Learned Society in Sweden and of the Mother Tongue Society.[6][7]
Early life and education
[edit]Raag was born in Torshälla in Sweden.[1][2] He attended the Stockholm Estonian elementary school and later Katedralskolan in Uppsala, graduating from the latter in 1972.[1][8] He studied Finno-Ugric languages, Russian and North Germanic languages at Uppsala University, graduating in 1976.[1][8] In 1977 he continued his studies in Soviet Estonia as a scholarship holder of the Swedish Institute, working at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute and the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR.[1] He received the degree of dr. phil. from Uppsala University in 1982 with the dissertation Lexical Characteristics in Swedish Estonian.[1][8]
Career and research
[edit]Raag joined the Uppsala University faculty in 1978 and became professor in 2001.[1][2][3] He also taught Estonian at Örebro University in 1984–1985 and on Estonian–Swedish translator-training courses at Stockholm University in 1993–1997.[1] Uppsala University's staff profile and the university's DiVA repository show a scholarly output of more than 100 registered publications, including monographs, dictionaries, teaching materials and journal articles.[3][9] A festschrift published by Uppsala University describes him as especially prolific in work on Swedish Estonian, Old Written Estonian, Estonians abroad, Swedish loanwords in Estonian and the linguistic history of the Swedish empire, and credits him with helping to move Estonian-language teaching at Uppsala into an online format in 2006.[5]
His work has repeatedly examined the relationship between language, migration and cultural history in the Estonian case.[4][6] The Estonian Literary Museum's Estonka project has described his 1999 survey Eestlane väljaspool Eestit as one of the broader overviews that placed Estonians in Russia within the wider history of Estonians abroad.[10] A 2024 review in Tuna described his monograph Rootsi kirjakultuur uusaegsel Eesti-, Liivi- ja Ingerimaal (2023) as an important contribution to the study of Swedish literary culture in Estonia, Livonia and Ingria, highlighting his command of historiography and archival sources.[11]
Honours
[edit]Raag received the annual prize of Keel ja Kirjandus in 1988 and the Order of the White Star, 5th Class, in 2001.[1][12] In 2008 he received Uppsala University's Distinguished Teaching Award.[13] He was the recipient of the Swedish Estonians' Union cultural award in 2012 and the award Eesti keel ja kultuur maailmas in 2021.[8][4]
Selected works
[edit]Among Raag's books are the following:[1][9]
- Lexical Characteristics in Swedish Estonian (1982)[1]
- Från allmogemål till nationalspråk: språkvård och språkpolitik i Estland från 1857 till 1999 (1999)[14]
- Eestlane väljaspool Eestit: ajalooline ülevaade (1999)[1]
- Talurahva keelest riigikeeleks (2008)[15]
- Välis-Eesti 100 aastat (2018)[16]
- Rootsi kirjakultuur uusaegsel Eesti-, Liivi- ja Ingerimaal (2023)[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Raag, Raimo". Eesti teaduse biograafiline leksikon (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Raimo Raag". Estonian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Raimo Raag". Uppsala University. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Aumärgi "Eesti keel ja kultuur maailmas" pälvisid Raimo Raag ja Eve Raeste". Haridus- ja Noorteamet (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 Blokland, Rogier; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa, eds. (2020). Där Östersjön är Västersjön – Seal, kus Läänemeri on Idameri: Festskrift till Virve och Raimo Raag – Pühendusteos Virve ja Raimo Raagile (PDF) (in Swedish and Estonian). Uppsala University. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Rootsi kirjakultuur uusaegsel Eesti-, Liivi- ja Ingerimaal". Emakeele Selts (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "105. tegevusaasta (2024)" (PDF). Emakeele Selts (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Rootsi Eestlaste Liidu (REL) kultuuri-auhinna laureaat 2012 – Raimo Raag". Free Estonian Word (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- 1 2 "Raag, Raimo, Professor". DiVA portal. Uppsala University. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "Ülevaated". Estonka (in Estonian). Estonian Literary Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ Küng, Enn (2024). "Uurimus rootsi kirjakultuurist Läänemere idaosas" (PDF). Tuna (in Estonian) (3): 129–133. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "985. Riiklike autasude andmine". Office of the President of the Republic of Estonia (in Estonian). 2 February 2001. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Distinguished Teaching Award". Uppsala University. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "Från allmogemål till nationalspråk: språkvård och språkpolitik i Estland från 1857 till 1999". DiVA portal. Uppsala University. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "Talurahva keelest riigikeeleks". DSpace at University of Tartu. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
- ↑ "Välis-Eesti 100 aastat". DIGAR. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
