Valga Museum commemorates two outstanding historical schoolteachers of Valga 

On June 17, it will be 170 years since the birth of Hans Einer, the founder of the Estonian-language school in Valga.

In addition to his work as a schoolmaster and publishing textbooks, Einer was also actively involved in Valga's social life. Under his leadership, the first Estonian-language play was performed here, and he was the founder of the first Estonian choir in Valga. Einer was elected chairman of the Valga Estonian Temperance Society and was also among the founders of the Estonian Säde Society. For a short period, he also served as the mayor of Valga.

This autumn, the Valga Museum will hold several events related to Einer. We will set up an exhibition on the theme of historical school life. We will also conduct a relevant lecture series, the first of which — Tiiu Kuurme's lecture on education, humanity, and times of crisis — has already taken place.

After visiting the grave of Einer’s family in Valka, we also visited the grave of Hans Einer’s great role model and teacher, Janis Cimze, the long-time head of the Livonian Parish School Teachers’ Seminar, as his birthday anniversary is also approaching in a few days.