Background
His father worked as a granary keeper and his mother was a chambermaid.
His father worked as a granary keeper and his mother was a chambermaid.
In 1820, he graduated from secondary school in Tallinn and worked as an elementary school teacher.
Friedrich"s parents were serfs at the Jõepere estate, Virumaa (in present-day Kadrina Parish, Lääne-Viru County). In 1833, Kreutzwald graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Imperial University of Tartu. From 1833 to 1877, he worked as the municipal physician in Võru.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
He was the member of numerous scientific societies in Europe and received honorary doctorates from a number of universities.