Karl Aben
Karl Aben was an Estonian and Latvian linguist and translator. In Estonia, he became known as the country's foremost translator from Latvian at the time, but he also translated from Estonian into Latvian. Aben was born into an Estonian family in Northern Latvia, he studied at the University of Tartu, graduating as Estonian philologist in 1940.
From 1940 to 1941 he worked at the University of Riga as a lecturer of Estonian and Finnish. From 1944 to 1961 he worked at the University of Tartu.
Aben published numerous articles on Estonian and Latvian literature and relations, as well as pedagogy and linguistics. Karl Aben authored first Estonian-Latvian and Latvian-Estonian dictionaries.
