Paul Saagpakk

Paul Friedrich Saagpakk (September 2, 1910, in Mustjala, Saaremaa, Governorate of Livonia – February 23, 1996, in Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia) was an Estonian linguist who compiled a standard reference dictionary of Estonian with 500,000 Estonian expressions and their English equivalents.

Career

Saagpakk graduated from the University of Tartu in 1935. From 1935, he worked as an English teacher in Tallinn. He studied at Southampton University College in 1936. He received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1966. He later married Olga Emilia Saagpakk (1913–?),