Linnart Mäll

Linnart Mäll ( born June 7, 1938 in Tallinn, Estonia, † February 14, 2010 in Tartu) was an Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician.

Biography

Studies and scientists

After schooling, he studied history at the State University of Tartu (Tartu Riiklik Ülikool ) and graduated in 1962 with the graduation from. He then completed a post -graduate studies from 1964 to 1966 at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and from 1966 to 1969 at the History Faculty of the State University of Tartu. At this place in 1985 and his Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.).

Since 1969 he was a lecturer at the State University of Tartu until he was relieved of this office for anti- communist tendencies in 1973. Then he remained until 1983 employee of the local department of Oriental and afterwards was 1983-1991 chair of the Department of Semiotics and history. After that, he was until 1994 chair of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Tartu.

As a scientist had Mäll far-reaching fields of activity and research topics such as texts of Buddha and the mythology of Buddhism, Indian Culture and Chinese Literature. His interest in the Buddha and Buddhism has already inspired at the beginning of the 1960s by the theologians and philosophers Uku Masing. This interest he continued through study and research work with Nikolai Konrad, Alexander Piatigorsky and Oktiabrina Volkova.

Mäll turned early to the method of semiotic analysis in the study of Buddhist texts and general oriental thought and literature. His progressive ideas meant that he was one of the principal scientists for orient scientific studies at the School of Semiotics in Moscow in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Chairman of the UNPO and politicians

With the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 he was a member of Congress ( Eesti Congress ), the transitional parliament elected, and this was one until 1991. He then from 1991 to 1992 Member of the Constituent Assembly of Estonia.

On 11 February 1991 was Mäll, who also, as well as the history and peoples of smaller states interested, founding member and first president of the organization until 1993, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples ( Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, UNPO ). He was Deputy Secretary-General of UNPO for Eastern Europe and as such even ten years Director of the Coordination Office of the UNPO Tartu in 1993. During this time he was until 2003 the relevant person UNPO for Eastern Europe and for the coordination and planning of events the organization as the "Third Regional Conference for Eastern Europe", dedicated to the needs of economic and political cooperation in the region and the process the dissolution of the Soviet Union employed.

At the same time he was concerned with the development and design of texts about humanism and human rights. This activity he Course availability in 1998 with the initiation of the project " Humanistic base texts in the History of Mankind " from whose head he was. In addition to that, he was the author of ten books and over one hundred scientific papers on this topic.

Mäll was between 1992 and 1994 and Chairman of the Estonian National Independence Party ( Eesti Rahvusliku Sõltumatuse Party) and 1992 founder of the Pan-European Union Estonia, which he was president until his death.

1994 he was appointed director of the Institute for orient scientific studies at the University of Tartu.

For his service in 2001 he was awarded the Order of the White Star 4th degree.