Ernst Konrad Otto Brasche (, transcribed ''Ernest Braše'', 27 November 1873 – 12 November 1933) was an Estonian physician, sport sailor, and chess player who participated as part of the Imperial Russian sailing team at the

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, Sweden. Brasche and his team members took a bronze medal in the

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Biography

Ernst Brasche was born in Reval (now,

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) to

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parents Johann Heinrich Brasche, a Lutheran clergyman, and Anna Wilhelmine Hoffmann. In 1893, he graduated from Gustav Adolf Gymnasium and in 1894, enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine of the

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, graduating in 1899. During the

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, he was a doctor in the Russian Red Cross Society service in

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. After the war, he stayed in

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, where he was a doctor there during the

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from 1915 until 1918. In 1918, he came back to Estonia with his family. During the

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the War of Freedom in Estonia, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the ...

, he was a doctor at the 2nd Tallinn Military Hospital, where he worked after the war until 1925. Afterwards, he worked as a private doctor in the field of ear, nose and throat diseases in Tallinn and

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. He became Tallinn's first chess champion in 1921. He took 3rd place in the 1st Estonian Championship in 1925. Brasche died in 1933 in Tallinn, aged 59.

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