Veera Saar

Veera Saar

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birthday

    1912-03-28

  • Day of Death

    2004-07-20 (92 years old)

Biography

Veera Saar (until 1936 Veera-Alise Döring; March 28, 1912 Aasiku, Jamburg County, St. Petersburg Governorate – July 20, 2004) was an Estonian writer and pedagogue.

She graduated from the Jõhvi Highschool in 1931 and from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tartu in 1937. In 1940, she defended her master's thesis "The Bone Ring" in the field of folklore, which was approved as a candidate of sciences degree in 1947. Academically, she was a member of the Lembela Corporation since 1935.

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