Ea Jansen (14 November 1921

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

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– 20 April 2005 Tallinn, Estonia) was an

n historian of

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history. She was the daughter of the Estonian feminist Helmi Press-Jansen and painter August Jansen. Until her death, she worked for

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. She graduated from Tallinn 9th Secondary School in 1941 and studied at the University of Tartu from 1942 to 1949, where she graduated with a degree in history.

Selected works

* 1998, "From an Ethnic Community to National Statehood: The Case of Estonians" (article)

References

1921 births 2005 deaths 20th-century Estonian historians Estonian Finno-Ugrists Historians of Estonia Estonian women historians Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class Soviet historians Academic staff of Tallinn University Estonian non-fiction writers 20th-century Estonian women writers Writers from Tallinn {{Estonia-historian-stub