Johannes Silvet
Johannes Silvet was an Estonian linguist and lexicographer.
Life
Silvet was born in Tartu, at that time in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. He studied at the University of Tartu from 1921 to 1925, and in 1925 he received a master's degree in philology with the thesis The Development of Milton's Blank Verse. He worked as an associate professor at the University of Tartu, and he compiled dictionaries.Silvet died in Elva, Estonia, and he is buried in the town cemetery.