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Nationality
  
Estonian

Occupation
  
Surgeon, Politician


Name
  
Konstantin Konik

Role
  
Estonian Politician

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Born
  
31 December 1873
Dorpat

Known for
  
Member of the Estonian Salvation Committee

Died
  
August 3, 1936, Tartu, Estonia

Konstantin Konik (31 December [O.S. 19 December] 1873 ā€“ 3 August 1936) was an Estonian politician and surgeon, member of the Estonian Salvation Committee

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Konstantin Konik was born to a working-class family in Tartu; his father made living as a carter. After studying at the Governorate Gymnasium in Tartu, Konstantin Konik graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the University of Dorpat (now University of Tartu) in 1873, and made his doctorate degree at the Odessa University in 1903.

On 8 March 1920 Konik made history at the University of Tartu by giving the first lecture ever made on medicine in Estonian language. The University of Tartu was established as an Estonian institution only in 1919, it had been the University of Dorpat, a Baltic German institution, before, where only German and since the 1880sā€“90s Russian language had been used.

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