Bernhard Linde

Bernhard Linde (pseudonym Pärt Pärn; 4 April 1886 Järvakandi Parish – 23 August 1954 Tallinn) was an Estonian literary and theatre personnel, critic and essayist.

Linde was a founding member of the Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia) group of writers.

During the First World War, he worked as an official of the tsarist army in Minsk and Vilnius.

[2] 1919-1924 Linde was the executive director of the publishing house Varrak which he founded upon his return.

He spent three years in the prison camps of Narva and Vasalemma, was released in 1954 being terminally ill and died in Tallinn shortly afterwards.