The Aavik House Museum

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Vallimaa 7, Kuressaare, Saaremaa, 58.257627, 22.484280 58 ° 15 '27.46 ", 22 ° 29' 3.41" The Aaviku House Museum is a branch of the Saaremaa Museum in Kuressaare in the Janesteküla district located at Valimaa 7. The museum presents an exposition dedicated to the life and work of Estonian linguist Johannes Aaviku and local cultural figure Joosep Aaviku. The museum was opened on June 19, 1992. From 1896 to 1926, Johannes Aavik lived in this house. From 1961 until his death in 1989, Joosep Aavik, an organist, leader of the choir and orchestra, and music critic, lived in the same house. Johannes Aavik (Est. Johannes Aavik; December 8, 1880, Laimjala, Saaremaa Island, Estonia - March 18, 1973, Stockholm) - Estonian linguist, reformer of the Estonian language. In 1902 he graduated from a German-language gymnasium in Kuressaare. In 1902-1903 he studied at the University of Tartu. In 1903-1905 he studied at the Nizhyn Institute of History and Philology in Ukraine, in 1910 he entered the doctoral program at the University of Helsinki. He was a member of Young Estonia. In 1926-1933 he taught at the University of Tartu. In 1934 he was appointed inspector of public schools. Aavik became the author of a unique experiment on the radical renewal of the Estonian language, which even touched on its grammatical basis. He developed a simplified sentence structure in the Estonian language, and also proposed a number of new word roots, which he borrowed from Estonian and Finnish dialects, based on the associativity of sounds and semantic meanings. Together with the poet and translator Willem Ridala, he managed to introduce over 300 new words into the modern Estonian language. Among the most widely used grammatical inventions of Aavik is, for example, a short form of the superlative form of adjectives. Work on the reorganization of the Estonian language continued after 1944 in exile in Sweden, where he published an atlas of dialects of the Estonian language, a conceptual dictionary, an etymological dictionary, and other works.