An Estonian writer and politician prominent during the second half of the Nineteenth Century, he is remembered as the founder of Sakala, a newspaper that played a key role in a cultural movement known as the Estonian National Awakening. Jakobson also helped to found the Society of Estonian Literati. He was born and raised in Tartu, Estonia. A radical political figure and reformer, he called for an end to the political dominance of Baltic-German nobles.
