Background
He was born in Kallaste, then Russian Empire (nowadays in Tartumaa, Republic of Estonia).
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Alexis Rannit
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In 1939, he graduated from the University of Tartu. He studied applied arts
Career
He spent his childhood in Saint St. Petersburg. He did research on Lithuanian literature and knew personally many Lithuanian authors. From 1938 to 1940 he worked as a correspondent of the Riga newspaper Segodnya.
In 1944, as the Red Army was approaching, Rannit emigrated to Germany, where he continued with his studies at the Institute of applied arts in Freiburg (1946—1950).
In 1953 he moved to the United States. He remarried. From 1954 to 1960 he worked at the public library of New New York
He worked as a research fellow and curator of Slavic and Eastern European collections at the University of Yale. Аlexis Rannit died on 5 January 1985 in New Haven.
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In 1956 he defended his master"s thesis on arts history (annotated critical biography of Ciurlionis) at the University of Columbia (New York).
Membership
Rannit was honorary doctor of a number of European (incl University of Stockholm), American and Korean universities, founding member of International Association of Arts Critics, represented the Estonian authors at the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association club, belonged to the editorial staff of Continent.
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Estonia